bone meal

or bonemeal


nounAgriculture.
  1. bones ground to a coarse powder, used as fertilizer or feed.

Origin of bone meal

1
An Americanism dating back to 1840–50

Words Nearby bone meal

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How to use bone meal in a sentence

  • Good results will also follow an application of bone meal or superphosphate at the rate of from 300 to 500 pounds per acre.

  • Get well-ground fresh bone-meal, and let all plants have only a handful in the spring, and the reward in bloom is great.

    A Woman's Hardy Garden | Helena Rutherfurd Ely
  • Care must be taken, in using bone-meal, not to put on too much, and to keep it away from contact with the rootlets.

    A Woman's Hardy Garden | Helena Rutherfurd Ely
  • Box planted in this way should grow and thrive, especially if given, along in May, a little bone-meal.

    A Woman's Hardy Garden | Helena Rutherfurd Ely
  • And Henrietta would dream only of pleasant things, such as cracked corn, or crisp cabbage-leaves, or bone meal.

    The Tale of Henrietta Hen | Arthur Scott Bailey

British Dictionary definitions for bone meal

bone meal

noun
  1. the product of dried and ground animal bones, used as a fertilizer or in stock feeds

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