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n. - Coarse food high in fiber but low in nutrients.

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Usage examples (34)
  • I personally found the line about "roughage" humorous.
  • Then tends to make inflamed and barely healing intestines get grumpy, parituclarly when scraped with "roughage".
  • Yet all of the "roughage" for thirty head of stock was raised on the thirteen acres of available soil.
  • We certainly have been filled full of the wrong kind of roughage .... and the country is in need of some form of laxative in a big way.
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