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Definition: Stover |
StoverNoun1. The dried stalks and leaves of a field crop (especially corn) used as animal fodder after the grain has been harvested. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "stover" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1611. (references) |
Etymology: Stover \Sto"ver\, noun. [from Old English expression estoveir, estovoir, necessity, provisions, properly an inf., ``to be necessary.'' compare to Estovers.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: Stover |
| Etymologies containing "stover": Estovers. (references) |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Stover, Missouri."
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Movie/TV Titles | The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956) | |
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 | Smokey Stover. I always feel better in the spring. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Unloading corn stover to be ground into livestock feed. Feed mill, Taylor, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| The following table summarizes the usage of "stover" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Stover | Last name | 9,000 | 1,370 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Stover, MO (city, FIPS 71044) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "stover"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | ushqim për kafshët (nutriment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | вид пресен фураж. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | ensilering af majsblade og-stilke (corn stover silage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | silage van maïsstelen en-bladeren (corn stover silage), kuilvoer van maïsstelen en-bladeren (corn stover silage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | ensilage de tiges et feuilles de maïs (corn stover silage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Maisstengel- und Maisblätter-silieren (corn stover silage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | τροφή ζώων (forage), ταγή (feed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | takarmány (bait, feed, fodder, forage, mess, provender). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | insilato di steli e di foglie di mais (corn stover silage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | overstay ensilagem de caules e folhas de milho (corn stover silage). (various references) грубые корма для скота. (various references) stočna hrana (cotton cake, feed, forage, green-fodder, pasturage, provender, soilage). (various references) ensilado de hojas y troncos de maíz (corn stover silage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "stover": stovers. (additional references) | |
Words containing "stover": estovers. (additional references) | |
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"Stover" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Stoleru, Tovar. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "stover" (pronounced stō"ver) |
| 3 | -ō" v er | clover, drover, moreover, over. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: strove, troves, voters. | |
| Words within the letters "e-o-r-s-t-v" | |
-1 letter: overs, overt, roset, rotes, roves, servo, store, stove, tores, torse, trove, verso, verst, verts, voter, votes. | |
-2 letters: eros, erst, ores, orts, over, rest, rets, revs, roes, rose, rote, rots, rove, sore, sort, toes, tore, tors, vert, vest, veto, vets, voes, vote. | |
-3 letters: ers, oes, ore, ors, ort, ose, res, ret, rev, roe, rot. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-o-r-s-t-v" | |
+1 letter: corvets, coverts, obverts, overset, revolts, revotes, stovers, trovers, vectors, vetoers, votress. | |
+2 letters: converts, coveters, cutovers, estovers, evertors, evictors, investor, levators, outraves, outserve, overacts, overbets, overcast, overcuts, overeats, overfast, overjust, overlets, overpast, oversalt, oversets, overshot, oversoft, overstay, overstep, overstir, overtask, overtips, overtops, overwets, restrove, servitor, sorptive, sportive, stopover, travoise, vertigos, viatores, virtuose, vitreous, vomiters, vortexes, vortices, votaress, votaries. | |
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