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chaff; hollow and loose
Meanings
2 senses · 10 examplesnoun
chaff; rice bran
Most commonly refers to the husk removed from rice or millet grains, used as animal feed or in past times as a staple for poor people.
Farmers use rice bran to feed pigs.
In the past, poor people survived by eating chaff and wild vegetables.
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This folk ballad tells of the hard days where people lived on chaff and vegetables for half the year.
Rice bran can be used to make natural fertilizer.
In the old society, most ordinary people lived a life where they ate chaff and vegetables for half the year.
adjective
hollow; loose and soft
informalUsed exclusively to describe vegetables like radishes that have lost moisture and become hollow inside.
This radish has been left too long, its core has gone hollow.
Don't buy this radish, it's already hollow inside.
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Radishes stored in winter easily become hollow.
This radish is hollow and can't be eaten anymore.
Mom threw away the hollow radish.