food bowl

English

Noun

food bowl (plural food bowls)

1. A bowl that is used to serve food, especially to pets.
   • 2006, Patty Dobbs Gross, The Golden Bridge: Selecting and Training Assistance Dogs for Children with Social, Emotional, and Educational Challenges:

     If your puppy guards his food bowl, you can help to discourage this unfortunate tendency by playing the following training game.

2. A region that has the conditions required to produce a large amount of food; a breadbasket.

   Synonyms: foodshed, breadbasket

   Antonym: food desert

Translations

bowl

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 飼料碗 / 饲料碗 (sìliàowǎn)

• Danish: madskål c (for pets)
• Dutch: etensbak (nl) m, voerbak (nl) m
• Finnish: ruokakuppi (fi)
• French: gamelle (fr) f
• German: Fressnapf (de) m, Futternapf (de) m
• Polish: miska (pl) m
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Romanian: bol de mâncare n, bol de hrană n
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: cuenco (es) m

region — see foodshed