Definitions for pabulum

pabulum pab·u·lum

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

Pabulum is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 110 anagrams from letters in pabulum (ablmpuu).

Definitions for pabulum

noun

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

Origin of pabulum

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

Examples for pabulum

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

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.

Inflammable matter may be considered as the pabulum of life.

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.

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

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

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.

Word Value for pabulum
Scrable

13

Words with friends

19

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