host plant

noun

Etymology

From host + plant.

  1. derived from plantō
  2. inherited from plantian — “to plant
  3. inherited from planten
  4. derived from planta
  5. inherited from *plantu
  6. inherited from plante
  7. inherited from plante
  8. compounded as host plant — “host + plant

Definitions

  1. A plant that supplies food resources and substrate for certain insects or other fauna.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for host plant. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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