blood meal

noun

the dried blood of animals used as a fertilizer, diet supplement for livestock, or deer repellent.

Origin of blood meal

First recorded in 1885–90

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024

They can live several months without a blood meal, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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It then crawls up your body, finds a good place to feed, cuts your skin open with tiny incisors and sticks in a feeding tube, through which it slowly takes a blood meal.
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The species bites humans for more than half of its blood meals.
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