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lawn food

lawn food noun: fertilizer for grass.

Noun

lawn food (usually uncountable, plural lawn foods)

  1. (informal, usually) Fertilizer for grass.
    • To fertilize, take a hose-end sprayer. Pour in one cup of liquid lawn food and follow with a can of beer, a cup of flea-and-tick shampoo and the balance in household ammonia.1989 June 19, Julie Greenwalt, “The Grass Is Always Greener on Jerry Baker's Lawn Because He Feeds It Beer, Soap and Ammonia”, in People Magazine, retrieved 22 Apr 2015
    • Buy him a rake, a rotary mower with a grass collection box, some autumn lawn food and The Lawn Expert by Dr Hessayon (£7.99, Transworld).2007 October 5, “Garden advice: Thorny problems”, in Telegraph, UK, retrieved 22 Apr 2015

Forms of lawn food

plurallawn foods

Questions about lawn food

What does lawn food mean?
Lawn food means fertilizer for grass.
What part of speech is lawn food?
Lawn food is a noun.
What is the plural of lawn food?
The plural of lawn food is lawn foods.

Words near lawn food in the dictionary

  1. lawn daisy
  2. lawn dart
  3. lawn dart effect
  4. lawn darts
  5. lawn flamingo
  6. lawn food
  7. lawn foods
  8. lawn gnome
  9. lawn gnomes
  10. Lawn Guyland
  11. lawn jart

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