silage

Alteration (probably by influence of silo) of ensilage (1881), itself from French ensilage, from ensiler (“put in a silo”), from Spanish ensilar.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaɪlɪd͡ʒ/

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• Rhymes: -aɪlɪdʒ

silage (usually uncountable, plural silages)

1. Fermented green forage fodder stored in an airtight silo or clamp.
   • 1939, Journal of Agricultural Research, volume 57, page 506:

     Compared to the corn silages, the sweetclover silages are much higher in digestible crude protein, but lower in total digestible nutrients.

• soilage

• cornlage
• haylage
• oatlage
• ryelage
• wheatlage

• → Welsh: silwair

silage (third-person singular simple present silages, present participle silaging or silageing, simple past and past participle silaged)

1. To ensile.

• Gailes, Siegal, ligase