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Definition of Plant food
1. Noun. Any substance such as manure or a mixture of nitrates used to make soil more fertile.
Generic synonyms: Chemical, Chemical Substance
Specialized synonyms: Organic, Organic Fertiliser, Organic Fertilizer
Terms within: Soda Niter, Sodium Nitrate, Niter, Nitre, Potassium Nitrate, Saltpeter, Saltpetre, Ammonium Nitrate
Derivative terms: Fertilize, Fertilize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Plant Food
Literary usage of Plant food
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Soils gradually become poorer in plant food as crops are removed every year.
If the crops removed are fed to farm animals and the manure returned to the ..."
2. Biennial Report by Oregon Board of Horticulture (1905)
"The soils of no two farms are alike—neither are the soils of two fields on the
same farm exactly alike. The total plant-food in one field differs from that ..."
3. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1908)
"NOTE ON THE DYER METHOD FOR THE DETERMINATION OF plant food IN SOILS.1 BY PRANK T.
SHUTT ... The stores of insoluble, inert plant food, no matter how large, ..."
4. The Chemistry of Plant Life by Roscoe Wilfred Thatcher (1921)
"CHEMISTRY OF PLANT LIFE CHAPTER • PLANT NUTRIENTS THERE is some confusion in the
use of the terms "nutrient," " plant food," etc., ..."
5. Forest Physiography: Physiography of the United States and Principles of by Isaiah Bowman (1911)
"... by combination with bases in the formation of sulphates, in addition to the
demands upon it by growing vegetation.2 TOTAL plant food; AVAILABLE PLANT ..."
6. Irrigation Engineering by Arthur Powell Davis, Herbert Michael Wilson (1919)
"CHAPTER IV plant food THE essential mineral elements of plant food derived from
the soil are calcium, potassium, phosphorus, magnesium, iron and sulphur. ..."
7. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"Daubeny then arrived at the idea of a distinction between the active and dormant
plant food in the soil. The chief stock of these materials, he concluded, ..."
8. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Soils gradually become poorer in plant food as crops are removed every year.
If the crops removed are fed to farm animals and the manure returned to the ..."
9. Biennial Report by Oregon Board of Horticulture (1905)
"The soils of no two farms are alike—neither are the soils of two fields on the
same farm exactly alike. The total plant-food in one field differs from that ..."
10. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1908)
"NOTE ON THE DYER METHOD FOR THE DETERMINATION OF plant food IN SOILS.1 BY PRANK T.
SHUTT ... The stores of insoluble, inert plant food, no matter how large, ..."
11. The Chemistry of Plant Life by Roscoe Wilfred Thatcher (1921)
"CHEMISTRY OF PLANT LIFE CHAPTER • PLANT NUTRIENTS THERE is some confusion in the
use of the terms "nutrient," " plant food," etc., ..."
12. Forest Physiography: Physiography of the United States and Principles of by Isaiah Bowman (1911)
"... by combination with bases in the formation of sulphates, in addition to the
demands upon it by growing vegetation.2 TOTAL plant food; AVAILABLE PLANT ..."
13. Irrigation Engineering by Arthur Powell Davis, Herbert Michael Wilson (1919)
"CHAPTER IV plant food THE essential mineral elements of plant food derived from
the soil are calcium, potassium, phosphorus, magnesium, iron and sulphur. ..."
14. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"Daubeny then arrived at the idea of a distinction between the active and dormant
plant food in the soil. The chief stock of these materials, he concluded, ..."
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