| 单词 | blood meal |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblood meal blood meal n. [with sense (a) compare German Blutmehl (1855 or earlier)] (a) a preparation containing dried blood, used esp. as an animal feed or fertilizer; (b) a meal of blood consumed by a mosquito or other blood-feeding organism. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] > fodder > additives spice1707 blood meal1868 1868 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 22 May 491/1 This blood meal..being nearly as valuable as the beef itself, would pay its own expense of carriage. 1903 P. Manson Trop. Dis. (rev. ed.) i. xii. 195 The same insects rarely failed to infect when set to bite non-immunes at any time subsequent to the twelfth day after their yellow fever blood meal. 1956 J. Gillespie & P. Hathaway Textbk. Gen. Agric. xvii. 225 Blood-meal, another residue from the slaughterhouse, is a favourite ingredient of rations for pigs and poultry. 1995 Org. Gardening Jan. 70/1 So line your planting furrow with rotted manure, dust the bed with blood meal, or drench the trench with guano tea! 2010 N.Y. Mag. 10 May 40/1 They [sc. bedbugs] prefer to dine at night, sometimes dropping onto their victims from the ceiling..before having their five- or ten-minute ‘blood meal’. < as lemmas |
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