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food plant

food plant noun: a plant which is a source of food for a given species.

Noun

food plant (plural food plants)

  1. A plant which is a source of food for a given species.
    • I would have eggs or larvae rushed to me here by plane from all over North America, with their foodplants [...].1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 44

Forms of food plant

pluralfood plants
alternative formfood-plant
alternative formfoodplant

Questions about food plant

What does food plant mean?
Food plant means a plant which is a source of food for a given species.
What part of speech is food plant?
Food plant is a noun.
What is the plural of food plant?
The plural of food plant is food plants.

Words near food plant in the dictionary

  1. food pantry
  2. food pill
  3. food pills
  4. food pipe
  5. food pipes
  6. food plant
  7. food plants
  8. food play
  9. food poisoning
  10. food poisonings
  11. food porn

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