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Pablum.

A type of cereal for infants made from cornmeal, oat, and wheat.

6 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

name/ˈpæbləm/Received-Pronunciation/ˈpæbl(ə)m/General-American
  1. A type of cereal for infants made from cornmeal, oat, and wheat.

    US · uncountable
Where this word comes from

The name of a food supplement for malnourished infants developed in 1931 by the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and Mead Johnson & Company, probably a shortening of Latin pābulum (“fodder for animals; food, nourishment”), from pā(scō) (“to feed, nourish; to drive to pasture; to support; to tend”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to protect, ward; to shepherd”)) + -bulum (suffix denoting an instrument) (from Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom (a variant of *-trom (suffix denoting an instrument or tool))), or directly from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-dʰlom (from *peh₂- + *-dʰlom). The name was trademarked in the United States in 1932.

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