roughage

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun coarse, indigestible plant food low in nutrients; its bulk stimulates intestinal peristalsis

From rough (“not smooth; crude, unrefined”) + -age (suffix forming nouns with the sense of appurtenance or collection).

Here and there a square of rich, black loam, freshly turned, bespoke the forehanded farmer; while in the fields of his neighbors straggling groups of cattle and hogs gleaned half-heartedly in the standing roughage. — The Promise: A Tale of the Great Northwest, James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx

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