cottonseed meal

American  

noun

1. cotton cake when pulverized.

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cottonseed meal British  

noun

1. the residue of cottonseed kernels from which oil has been extracted, used as fodder or fertilizer

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Etymology

Origin of cottonseed meal

An Americanism dating back to 1855–60

Example Sentences

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cottonseed meal

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

Also, adding twenty-five per cent. of the refined cottonseed meal to our war bread made it more nutritious and no less palatable.

From Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries by Slosson, Edwin E.