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foodplant

foodplant is the alternative form of food plant.

Meaning of food plant

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 foodplant

pluralfoodplants

Questions about foodplant

What is foodplant the alternative form of?
Foodplant is the alternative form of food plant.

Words near foodplant in the dictionary

  1. foodoir
  2. foodoirs
  3. foodomics
  4. foodophile
  5. foodophiles
  6. foodplant
  7. foodplants
  8. foodplay
  9. foodporn
  10. foodpreneur
  11. foodpreneurs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: foodplant (page history and authors); food plant (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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