food plant
See also: foodplant
English
Alternative forms
- food-plant
- foodplant
Noun
food plant (plural food plants)
- (chiefly entomology) A plant which is a source of food for a given species.
- 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 44:
- 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 2011, p. 44: