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, published 2011, page 44:
  I would have eggs or larvae rushed to me here by plane from all over North America, with their foodplants [...].

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