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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 [...].