roughage

Word family  noun rough the rough roughage roughness adjective rough verb rough roughen adverb rough roughly

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rough·age /ˈrʌfɪdʒ/ noun [uncountable]  DFNa substance contained in some vegetables, fruits, and grains that helps your bowels to work 〔食物中的〕粗纤维 SYN fibre

Examples from the Corpus

roughage• For those individuals committed to a daily roughage allotment, the Manchester cobb salad is a more-than-satisfactory dish.• Also there is a high probability that your holiday meals were lower in roughage than your own regime at home.• It can also produce a good carcass when the diet is mainly roughage.• In health, constipation is rare, being a reflection in many human cases of a lack of roughage in the diet.• The food conversion rate on roughage or forage is good.• Some live foods, particularly crustacea, also provide roughage to aid digestion and contribute less detrital matter than non-live foods.• There is some roughage on the bone that causes swelling and pain.

rough·age nounChineseSyllable  

substance contained some fruits, a and in Corpus vegetables,

roughage
rough‧age /ˈrʌfɪdʒ/ noun [uncountable]a substance contained in some vegetables, fruits, and grains that helps your bowels to work
   SYN  fibre

rough·ageBrE /ˈrʌfɪdʒ/ 🔊NAmE /ˈrʌfɪdʒ/ 🔊 noun [uncountable] the part of food that helps to keep a person healthy by keeping the bowels working and moving other food quickly through the body 食物中的粗纤维 SYN fibre