Pabulum

Definition of pabulum:

part of speech: noun

Food: provender: fuel.

part of speech: noun

That which feeds or nourishes.

Usage examples for pabulum:

• Doubtless he thought the hymnbook would be excellent dessert after such a dry meal; and some readers of scientific works find most any kind of dessert refreshing after partaking of the mental pabulum of dry statistics and technical terms to be found in many scientific works. "The Universe a Vast Electric Organism", George Woodward Warder.