fodder vs pasture

fodder and pasture both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
fodder	Yes	No	Yes	No
pasture	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, pasture is a hyponym of fodder; that is, pasture is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than fodder:

fodder: coarse food (especially for livestock) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop
pasture: bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle

Other hyponyms of fodder include eatage, forage, grass, pasturage, alfalfa, broad bean, horse bean, hay, stover.

fodder (noun)	pasture (noun)
coarse food (especially for livestock) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop	bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle
soldiers who are regarded as expendable in the face of artillery fire	a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock

fodder (verb)	pasture (verb)
give fodder (to domesticated animals)	feed as in a meadow or pasture
	let feed in a field or pasture or meadow