1. 饲料;草料;秣
Fodder is food that is given to cows, horses, and other animals.

2. 素材;材料
If you say that something is fodder for a particular purpose, you mean that it is useful for that purpose and perhaps nothing else.

1. coarse food (especially for livestock) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop

2. soldiers who are regarded as expendable in the face of artillery fire

Synonym: cannon fodderfresh fish