Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Bones reduced to a rather coarse powder by grinding: used in agriculture as a fertilizer.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun ground bones, used as a fertilizer or as a component in animal feed; -- it is high in phosphate content.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Alternative spelling of bone meal.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun fertilizer made of ground bones

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Examples

  • You can feed it raw or cooked, as you prefer, but add the bonemeal and the fish oil after you cook it.

    30 Days to a Well-Mannered Dog Tamar Geller 2010

  • You can feed it raw or cooked, as you prefer, but add the bonemeal and the fish oil after you cook it.

    30 Days to a Well-Mannered Dog Tamar Geller 2010

  • You can feed it raw or cooked, as you prefer, but add the bonemeal and the fish oil after you cook it.

    30 Days to a Well-Mannered Dog Tamar Geller 2010

  • The *littles* are much better this year than last too, I believe it is the extra bonemeal added as they die down.

    April Dreams Gardens-GBBD 2009 « Fairegarden 2009

  • I am being more free with the bonemeal for all the tulips as they are fading this year in hopes of better returns, but new ones will still be added in the fall.

    April Dreams Gardens-GBBD 2009 « Fairegarden 2009

  • Most common and most easily curable with penicillin and other antibiotics is the cutaneous form, observed among people who come into contact with contaminated hides, hair, or bonemeal or who butcher infected animals.

    Inaccrochable 2009

  • Maybe try to throw some bonemeal or other fertilizer on them to give them a boost.

    Tulips « Fairegarden 2008

  • Sometimes I remember to give the bulbs bonemeal and sometimes I forget.

    Tulips « Fairegarden 2008

  • Livestock or poultry feeds manufactured from processed livestock byproducts (such as meatmeal tankage, meat and bonemeal, bloodmeal, and feed grade animal fat).

    Animal food 2008

  • This involved taking out the topsoil, breaking up the subsoil, removing weeds and big stones, adding dried manure and bonemeal, and returning the topsoil.

    Slaying is Such Sweet Sorrow Patricia Harwin 2005

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