Definitions for pabulums

pabulums pab·u·lum

Spelling: [pab-yuh-luh m]
IPA: /ˈpæb yə ləm/

Pabulums is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 224 anagrams from letters in pabulums (ablmpsuu).

Definitions for pabulums

noun

  1. something that nourishes an animal or vegetable organism; food; nutriment.
  2. material for intellectual nourishment.
  3. pablum (def 2).

Origin of pabulums

1670-80; Latin pābulum food, nourishment, equivalent to pā(scere) to feed (akin to food) + -bulum noun suffix of instrument

Examples for pabulums

It also provides the pabulum for the caterpillar of the Holly-blue butterfly (Lycæna argiolus).

The grove gave them wood; the stream, water; the plain, pabulum for their horses.

Bearcroft the classic observed to him, that learning was pabulum animi, food of the mind.

It fairly slobbered with the froth of sensation—lived on scandal, and obtained its pabulum by any and every means.

Inflammable matter may be considered as the pabulum of life.

Being aware that she was a woman of culture his desire was simply to supply her with the pabulum that she would expect.

It offered no pabulum to the wrongdoer in the form of compensation for stolen humanity.

pabulum is nothing without a preëxisting "something" to dispose of it.

They mean that the public is to be given up, not as a heathen land for conversion, but simply as a pabulum for experiment.

If they do not, no pabulum ever after, will their indurated tissues assimilate.

Word Value for pabulums
Scrable

13

Words with friends

19

Similar words for pabulums
Word of the day