plant food
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of plant food
First recorded in 1865–70
Example Sentences
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They encouraged landowners plant food sources on the edge of crop fields or on farmland which did not yield much produce.
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026
We added plant food and tomato cages to the cart.
From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026
Hauling tons of sugar into space as plant food may not make much sense, but recent advances in synthesizing sugars in electrolyzers may make that unnecessary.
From Science Magazine • Jun. 7, 2023
Before our study, the earliest known plant food remains in Southwest Asia were from a hunter-gatherer site in Jordan roughly dating to 14,400 years ago, reported in 2018.
From Salon • Dec. 5, 2022
Even though most of Japan escaped the glaciers that blanketed Britain and Canada, Japan was still cold, dry, and extensively covered with conifer and birch forests offering little plant food to humans.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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