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bone meal
or bonemeal
noun
, Agriculture.
- bones ground to a coarse powder, used as fertilizer or feed.
bone meal
noun
- the product of dried and ground animal bones, used as a fertilizer or in stock feeds
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Word History and Origins
Origin of bone meal1
An Americanism dating back to 1840–50
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Example Sentences
Good results will also follow an application of bone meal or superphosphate at the rate of from 300 to 500 pounds per acre.
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Get well-ground fresh bone-meal, and let all plants have only a handful in the spring, and the reward in bloom is great.
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Care must be taken, in using bone-meal, not to put on too much, and to keep it away from contact with the rootlets.
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Box planted in this way should grow and thrive, especially if given, along in May, a little bone-meal.
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And Henrietta would dream only of pleasant things, such as cracked corn, or crisp cabbage-leaves, or bone meal.
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