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blood meal

noun

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


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Word History and Origins

Origin of blood meal1

First recorded in 1885–90
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Example Sentences

They can live several months without a blood meal, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Social bonds among vampire bats as they roost in trees include grooming one another and regurgitating blood meals for hungry pals.

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.

From Time

The species bites humans for more than half of its blood meals.

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