cottonseed meal
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of cottonseed meal
An Americanism dating back to 1855–60
Example Sentences
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To increase the availability of other types of animal feed, China’s customs authority removed inspection requirements on a variety of agricultural byproducts, including peanut meal, cottonseed meal and rapeseed meal.
From New York Times ● Jul. 9, 2018
Aside from a little lime and cottonseed meal, the garden needed no fertilizer other than the decaying mulch.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 7, 2017
She estimates that a 150- to 200-pound person will produce six pounds of nitrogen, two pounds of phosphorus and one pound of potassium: the same 6-2-1 ratio of cottonseed meal fertilizer.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 28, 2016
Commerce in raw cotton, rice, fertilizers from the phosphate beds along the Ashley and from cottonseed meal, fruits and naval stores is large.
From Time Magazine Archive
One hundred pounds of increase may be obtained under average conditions from 150 pounds stover, 325 pounds of hay, 775 pounds of maize and 75 pounds of cottonseed meal.
From The Young Farmer: Some Things He Should Know by Hunt, Thomas Forsyth
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