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bone meal

or ²ú´Ç²Ô±ðm±ð²¹±ô

noun

Agriculture.
  1. bones ground to a coarse powder, used as fertilizer or feed.


bone meal

noun

  1. the product of dried and ground animal bones, used as a fertilizer or in stock feeds
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of bone meal1

An Americanism dating back to 1840–50
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My kids will go get deer bones out of the woods, and then I’ll grind them up and make my own bone meal.

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The Pollution Control Board responded that it recently began a study that could lead to curbing air pollution and reducing the intolerable stench in the area largely caused, it said, by bone meal fertilizer factories and meat rendering plants.

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The number of BSE cases plummeted after bans were introduced on feed that included meat and bone meal from infected cows believed to cause the disease.

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Fertilizers that have chicken manure or bone meal are particularly enticing to dogs, Poppenga said, so use them only in areas your dog can’t access.

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Applying amendments that are slow to break down, such as agricultural lime, bone meal and rock phosphate, in autumn allows time for natural processes to work, ensuring that nutrients will be readily available when plants begin growing next year.

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