plant food

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of plant food¹

First recorded in 1865–70

Example Sentences

An indoor herb garden isn’t as difficult to come by as it might seem, because modern indoor herb garden kits typically come in bundles that include planters, seeds, soil, plant food, and more.

From Popular-Science

Its rapid disappearance is attributed to the loss of habitat and native plant food as a result of urban development and, possibly, an influx of invasive ants likely spread though the shipment of goods.

From Science News

Now, too cold to find many nuts and berries or other plant foods, Arctic communities would have relied on hunting to survive.

From Science News For Students

When natural growth cycles are lagging, plant food spikes can help enhance the growth process and target specific aspects of your plant, including its color, as well as stem and leaf growth.

From Popular-Science

For example, vegetable broth can be made by simmering available plant foods in water without any animal food ingredients.

From Popular-Science

The complaint adds that the officer further observed “A bottle of Schultz plant food, in plain view.”

From The Daily Beast

But where and how are these three kinds of raw material manufactured into plant food?

From Project Gutenberg

The three kinds of raw material thus brought together chiefly in the leaves are there manufactured into plant food.

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Put the seeds in the tubes, and water with plant food in solution.

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Wherever plant food gained great importance, plant totems were then added.

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This does not look well in an Aquarium, and is apt to take up so much of the plant-food that the other plants are starved out.

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