fodder vs provender

fodder and provender both are nouns.

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

As nouns, provender is a hypernym of fodder; that is, provender is a word with a broader meaning than fodder:

fodder: coarse food (especially for livestock) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop
provender: food for domestic livestock

Other hypernyms of fodder include feed.

fodder (noun)	provender (noun)
coarse food (especially for livestock) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop	a stock or supply of foods
soldiers who are regarded as expendable in the face of artillery fire	food for domestic livestock

fodder (verb)	provender (verb)
give fodder (to domesticated animals)