bone meal
noun
,
Agriculture
1.
bones ground to a coarse powder, used as fertilizer or feed.
Also,
bonemeal
.
Origin
1840-50,
Americanism
Examples from the web for
bone meal
The outbreak may have resulted from the feeding of scrapie-containing sheep meat-and-
bone meal
to cattle.
No animal derived protein,
bone meal
or poultry litter is included in any feed.
British Dictionary definitions for
bone meal
bone meal
noun
1.
the product of dried and ground animal bones, used as a fertilizer or in stock feeds