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bone meal

bone meal noun: ground bones used as a slow-release fertilizer, especially for bulbs.

Noun

bone meal (countable and uncountable, plural bone meals)

  1. Ground bones used as a slow-release fertilizer, especially for bulbs.

Verb

bone meal (third-person singular simple present bone meals, present participle bone mealing, simple past and past participle bone mealed)

  1. (transitive) To use bone meal on.

bone meal meaning in Tamil, Tagalog and Indonesian

bone meal in Tamil

எலும்புத் தூள், எலும்புத் தூள் உரம், என்புசேருணவு, எலும்பு எரு, எலும்புத்தூள்

bone meal in Tagalog

ground bones used as a slow-release fertilizer
butunggiling

bone meal in Indonesian

ground bones used as a slow-release fertilizer
tepung tulang

Forms of bone meal

Noun
pluralbone meals
alternative formbonemeal
Verb
third-person singular presentbone meals
present participlebone mealing
past participlebone mealed
pastbone mealed

Questions about bone meal

What does bone meal mean?
Bone meal means ground bones used as a slow-release fertilizer, especially for bulbs.
What is bone meal in Tamil?
Bone meal in Tamil is எலும்புத் தூள், எலும்புத் தூள் உரம், என்புசேருணவு. See Bone meal meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is bone meal?
Bone meal can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of bone meal?
The plural of bone meal is bone meals.

Words near bone meal in the dictionary

  1. bone lace
  2. bone laces
  3. bone loss
  4. bone marrow
  5. bone marrows
  6. bone meal
  7. bone meals
  8. bone mineral densities
  9. bone mineral density
  10. bone morphogenetic protein
  11. bone morphogenetic proteins

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bone meal (page history and authors); bone meal (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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