bone meal
or bonemeal
bones ground to a coarse powder, used as fertilizer or feed.
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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.
The Practical Garden-Book | C. E. HunnGet 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 ElyCare 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 ElyBox 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 ElyAnd 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
the product of dried and ground animal bones, used as a fertilizer or in stock feeds
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