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stover

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for stover.

Editorial note

Also the stover and lost corn kernals provide significant food to wild animals, so there will be further enviromental costs to removing the stover.

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Definitions3
Parts of speech1

Quick take

Fodder for cattle, especially straw or coarse hay.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of stover gathered in one view.

noun

Fodder for cattle, especially straw or coarse hay.

noun

Stalks and leaves, not including grain, of certain forages

noun

A surname from German.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for stover.

noun

Fodder for cattle, especially straw or coarse hay.

noun

Stalks and leaves, not including grain, of certain forages

noun

A surname from German.

Example sentences

1

Also the stover and lost corn kernals provide significant food to wild animals, so there will be further enviromental costs to removing the stover.

2

The corn lobby are huge advocates for cellulosic ethanol because it means corn stover could also be made into ethanol.

3

So ideally one of your systems would be at the local elevator to make stover dropoff/biochar pickup easy?

4

Many of these gasification systems run fine on dead standing wood (fallen branches), corn stover, biogasse and nut shells.

5

There have been many attempts to utilise corn and other grain's stover, but all of them have been marginaly profitable.

6

FOO came first in the 1930s; it was pervasively used by the Smokey Stover comic strip.

7

Smokey Stover started the meme of substituting 'foo' into words.

8

> use two orders of magnitude less land not if you use stover and cob.

9

Various schemes have been developed to,upgrade stover as fuel, by windrowing it, letting it ret, then drying, and then pellitising it for fuel.....

10

Corn stover, walnut shells, bigasse, olive pits, etc.

Quote examples

1

Smokey Stover, the 1935 "Where there's foo, there's fire" guy, was a TV cartoon in the 1970s.

2

And the popular comic strip Smoky Stover starting in the 1930's used the word "Foo" wrt a firefighting character perhaps giving that spelling more currency.

3

There was a comic strip called Smokey Stover that started in 1935 whose title character was a "foo fighter" (firefighter) and drove a "foomobile" (a tiny fire truck with only two wheels).

4

We use the terms "foo" and "bar" in programming as standardized nonce words or even variable names; "foo" in particular is traceable at least as far back as the 1930s comic Smokey Stover, whose author Bill Holman was fond of putting nonsensical words, puns, and sight gags in his comics.

Proper noun examples

1

Russel-Stover makes sugar-free chocolates, peanut butter cups, and other confections that rely on sugar alcohols and sucralose to replace the missing sugar.

2

For example, for the book Caine's Law by Matthew Stover, you have the Two Pens and Kirkus reviews as negative, when in fact they were positive reviews.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use stover in a sentence?

Also the stover and lost corn kernals provide significant food to wild animals, so there will be further enviromental costs to removing the stover.

What does stover mean?

Fodder for cattle, especially straw or coarse hay.

What part of speech is stover?

stover is commonly used as noun.