stover
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- noun The dried stalks and leaves of a cereal crop, used as fodder after the grain has been harvested.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- noun Fodder for cattle, especially straw or coarse hay.
Examples
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Corn stover is what remains on the field after corn has been harvested.
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Cellulosic ethanol is no different from corn ethanol except that it can be made from non-food material, including wood waste, garbage, wheat straw, prairie grass and the residue from corn called stover.
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Dennis Buckmaster, in foreground, and research assistant Bart Coffman found that shredding corn plant residue, know as stover, rather than chopping, may provide easier access to the cellulosic matter used to produce ethanol.
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Corn stover, the cobs, stalks, and husks left over from harvesting corn.
Note
The word 'stover' comes from an Old French word meaning 'to be necessary'.
