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ORGANIC FERTILISER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does organic fertiliser mean?
• ORGANIC FERTILISER (noun)
The noun ORGANIC FERTILISER has 1 sense:
1. a fertilizer that is derived from animal or vegetable matter
Familiarity information: ORGANIC FERTILISER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A fertilizer that is derived from animal or vegetable matter
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Synonyms:
organic; organic fertiliser; organic fertilizer
Hypernyms ("organic fertiliser" is a kind of...):
fertiliser; fertilizer; plant food (any substance such as manure or a mixture of nitrates used to make soil more fertile)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "organic fertiliser"):
bonemeal (fertilizer made of ground bones)
neem cake (residue after oil is pressed from neem seeds)
manure (any animal or plant material used to fertilize land especially animal excreta usually with litter material)
fish meal (ground dried fish used as fertilizer and as feed for domestic livestock)
guano (the excrement of sea birds; used as fertilizer)
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