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BLOOD MEAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does blood meal mean?
• BLOOD MEAL (noun)
The noun BLOOD MEAL has 1 sense:
1. the dried and powdered blood of animals
Familiarity information: BLOOD MEAL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The dried and powdered blood of animals
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("blood meal" is a kind of...):
Context examples
A lot of people don’t realize that mosquitoes have kidneys, and when they take a blood meal from you they also urinate on you almost simultaneously.
(Novel insecticide blocks mosquitoes’ ability to urinate, NIH)
They (gametocytes) go via a blood meal into the mosquito’s stomach.
(New way to stop falciparum malaria transmission, SciDev.Net)
When untreated mosquitoes consumed a blood meal, their abdominal diameter immediately doubled, and then decreased over the next 24 hours.
(Novel insecticide blocks mosquitoes’ ability to urinate, NIH)
As they take in a blood meal, they urinate to dispose of the waste products.
(Novel insecticide blocks mosquitoes’ ability to urinate, NIH)
When mosquitoes take in a blood meal, they can double or triple their body weight.
(Novel insecticide blocks mosquitoes’ ability to urinate, NIH)
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