plant food

American  

noun

1. nourishment, as fertilizer or chemicals, for plants.

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Etymology

Origin of plant food

First recorded in 1865–70

Example Sentences

Plant food has albumin and fat, but it has very much starch or sugar.

From Applied Physiology Including the Effects of Alcohol and Narcotics by Overton, Frank

Plant food, the principal diet of the world, has one serious drawback; it is not always savory, or palatable.

From No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet with Vegetable Recipes by Wheldon, Rupert H.

Plant food must be in solution and in the form of a film moisture surrounding the smallest soil particles in order to be available to the fine plant rootlets which seek it.

From Apple Growing by Burritt, M. C.

Plant food is of as many kinds, or, more accurately speaking, in as many forms, as is food for human beings.

From Home Vegetable Gardening — a Complete and Practical Guide to the Planting and Care of All Vegetables, Fruits and Berries Worth Growing for Home Use by Rockwell, F. F. (Frederick Frye)

Plant food is man's natural diet; ample, suitable, and available; obtainable with least labor and expense, and in pleasing form and variety.

From No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet with Vegetable Recipes by Wheldon, Rupert H.

Related Words

• manure