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PLANT FOOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does plant food mean? 

PLANT FOOD (noun)
  The noun PLANT FOOD has 1 sense:

1. any substance such as manure or a mixture of nitrates used to make soil more fertileplay

  Familiarity information: PLANT FOOD used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PLANT FOOD (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Any substance such as manure or a mixture of nitrates used to make soil more fertile

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

fertiliser; fertilizer; plant food

Hypernyms ("plant food" is a kind of...):

chemical; chemical substance (material produced by or used in a reaction involving changes in atoms or molecules)

Meronyms (substance of "plant food"):

soda niter; sodium nitrate ((NaNO3) used especially as a fertilizer and explosive)

niter; nitre; potassium nitrate; saltpeter; saltpetre ((KNO3) used especially as a fertilizer and explosive)

ammonium nitrate (used as an explosive and fertilizer and rocket propellant)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "plant food"):

organic; organic fertiliser; organic fertilizer (a fertilizer that is derived from animal or vegetable matter)


 Context examples 


Large, warm-blooded dinosaurian herbivores weren't able to exist close to the equator—there was not enough dependable plant food.

(Big dinosaurs steered clear of the tropics, NSF)

A naturally occurring, orally available cleavage product of the glucosinolate glucobrassicanin, a natural compound present in a wide variety of plant food substances including members of the family Cruciferae with antioxidant and potential chemopreventive properties.

(Indole-3-carbinol, NCI Thesaurus)



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