plant food

American  

noun

1. nourishment, as fertilizer or chemicals, for plants.

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Etymology

Origin of plant food

First recorded in 1865–70

Example Sentences

Plant food must be in solution and in the form of a film moisture surrounding the smallest soil particles in order to be available to the fine plant rootlets which seek it.

From Apple Growing by Burritt, M. C.

Plant food, the principal diet of the world, has one serious drawback; it is not always savory, or palatable.

From No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet with Vegetable Recipes by Wheldon, Rupert H.

Plant food consists of a dozen or more different substances.

From Talks on Manures A Series of Familiar and Practical Talks Between the Author and the Deacon, the Doctor, and other Neighbors, on the Whole Subject by Harris, Joseph

Plant food is man's natural diet; ample, suitable, and available; obtainable with least labor and expense, and in pleasing form and variety.

From No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet with Vegetable Recipes by Wheldon, Rupert H.

"Plant food was regularly incorporated with the plowed soil of the high-yielding plot."

From The Story of the Soil; from the Basis of Absolute Science and Real Life, by Hopkins, Cyril G. (Cyril George)

Related Words

• manure