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  • noun The stomach-contents of a blood-sucking insect (used especially to study the spread of infections)
  • noun A fertilizer, rich in nitrogen, made from dried blood

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Examples

  • Livestock or poultry feeds manufactured from processed livestock byproducts (such as meatmeal tankage, meat and bonemeal, bloodmeal, and feed grade animal fat).

    Animal food 2008

  • After mating, the female blackfly seeks a bloodmeal and may ingest microfilariae if the meal is taken from a person infected with onchocerciasis.

    Chapter 2 2000

  • An ex vivo ookinete was obtained from an Anopheles stephensi infected bloodmeal 32 hours post-feeding, resuspended in Matrigel (BD Bioscience, UK) and imaged for 10 minutes.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Arthur M. Talman et al. 2010

  • An ex vivo ookinete was obtained from an Anopheles stephensi infected bloodmeal 32 hours post-feeding, resuspended in Matrigel (BD Bioscience, UK) and imaged for 10 minutes.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Arthur M. Talman et al. 2010

  • Add bloodmeal, alfalfa meal, or other nitrogen-rich material to the soil before using carbon-rich mulches.

    Kootenay Rockies - News 2010

  • Impale foam cubes on bamboo stakes or skewers, soak them in the bloodmeal / ammonia mix and then stick them around plants you're trying to protect.

    Latest Articles 2008

  • To make, mix 2.5 pounds of bloodmeal in a bucket of water and add 1 cup of ammonia.

    Latest Articles 2008

  • Furthermore, midguts collected from the 6-day-fed ticks expressed twice as many transcripts involved in bloodmeal processing as midguts from unfed / 2-day-fed ticks.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles Daniel E Sonenshine and Jesus Jennifer M Anderson 2008

  • Another scent repellent favored by Netherlands Flower Bulb Information Center Director Sally Ferguson is "Swedish Skewers," made by soaking cubes of floral foam in a "soup" of bloodmeal, ammonia and water.

    Latest Articles 2008

  • You’ll need to make a collection of boxes, as well as manure/finished compost, and a high-nitrogen additive like bloodmeal, or cottonseedmeal.

    Decomposing Boxing Day 2007

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