food plant

noun

A plant which is a source of food for a given species.

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Meanings

nounfood plant (plural food plants)

plural food plants · alternative food-plant · alternative foodplant

  1. biologyA plant which is a source of food for a given species.

    I would have eggs or larvae rushed to me here by plane from all over North America, with their foodplants [...].

    1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 44
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