1Fibrous indigestible material in vegetable foodstuffs which aids the passage of food and waste products through the gut.
（富含纤维质的）粗糙食物
fresh fruit and wholemeal bread are important sources of roughage in the diet
Example sentencesExamples
If people were designed to be strict vegetarians, we would have a specialized colon, specialized teeth and a stomach that doesn't have a generalized pH - all the better to handle roughage.
Consumerism exploits our instinctive tendency to overeat fats and sugars by dressing food products up as ‘healthy’ or ‘nourishing’ or ‘energy giving’ when what most of us need is plenty of roughage and a lot less calories.
It has a sugar so it gives you some energy, but it also has some fiber and roughage, so it gives the illusion of being healthier.
Synonyms
bulk, fibrous material
1.1Farming Coarse, fibrous fodder.
〔农〕粗饲料
Example sentencesExamples
Conversely, the rationale for starting cattle on a diet with less roughage and more concentrate is based on the perceived improvement in performance and, thereby, increased profitability.
In many areas of the Southeast U.S., cottonseed hulls are often the primary source of roughage or are used to extend conventional forage supplies.
In order to produce twenty times more milk than a calf would need, she receives a diet heavy in grain - not the roughage that cows have evolved to digest easily - causing metabolic disorders and painful lameness.
It takes 60 to 90 days for them to develop the four-chamber ruminant stomach that allows them to eat roughage and extract protein from it.
Sows in group housing that were not fed additional roughage had an increased risk of body lesions than sows in herds where additional roughage was fed.
Definition of roughage in US English:
roughage
nounˈrəfijˈrəfɪdʒ
1Fibrous indigestible material in vegetable foodstuffs which aids the passage of food and waste products through the gut.
（富含纤维质的）粗糙食物
Example sentencesExamples
It has a sugar so it gives you some energy, but it also has some fiber and roughage, so it gives the illusion of being healthier.
Consumerism exploits our instinctive tendency to overeat fats and sugars by dressing food products up as ‘healthy’ or ‘nourishing’ or ‘energy giving’ when what most of us need is plenty of roughage and a lot less calories.
If people were designed to be strict vegetarians, we would have a specialized colon, specialized teeth and a stomach that doesn't have a generalized pH - all the better to handle roughage.
Synonyms
bulk, fibrous material
1.1Farming Coarse, fibrous fodder.
〔农〕粗饲料
Example sentencesExamples
Sows in group housing that were not fed additional roughage had an increased risk of body lesions than sows in herds where additional roughage was fed.
Conversely, the rationale for starting cattle on a diet with less roughage and more concentrate is based on the perceived improvement in performance and, thereby, increased profitability.
In order to produce twenty times more milk than a calf would need, she receives a diet heavy in grain - not the roughage that cows have evolved to digest easily - causing metabolic disorders and painful lameness.
It takes 60 to 90 days for them to develop the four-chamber ruminant stomach that allows them to eat roughage and extract protein from it.
In many areas of the Southeast U.S., cottonseed hulls are often the primary source of roughage or are used to extend conventional forage supplies.