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host plant

host plant noun: a plant that supplies food resources and substrate for certain insects or other fauna.

Noun

host plant (plural host plants)

  1. A plant that supplies food resources and substrate for certain insects or other fauna.

host plant meaning in Tamil

host plant in Tamil

விருந்தோம்பித் தாவரம், ஓம்புப்பயிர்

Forms of host plant

pluralhost plants
alternative formhostplant

Origin of host plant

From host + plant.

Questions about host plant

What does host plant mean?
Host plant means a plant that supplies food resources and substrate for certain insects or other fauna.
What is host plant in Tamil?
Host plant in Tamil is விருந்தோம்பித் தாவரம், ஓம்புப்பயிர். See Host plant meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is host plant?
Host plant is a noun.
What is the plural of host plant?
The plural of host plant is host plants.

Words near host plant in the dictionary

  1. host city
  2. host countries
  3. host country
  4. host desecration
  5. host families
  6. host plant
  7. host plants
  8. host response
  9. host responses
  10. host rock
  11. host rocks

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