COMPOST


Meaning of COMPOST in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ kɒmpɒst, AM -poʊst ]

( composts, composting, composted)

1.

Compost is a mixture of decayed plants and vegetable waste which is added to the soil to help plants grow.

...a small compost heap.

N-UNCOUNT

2.

Compost is specially treated soil that you buy and use to grow seeds and plants in pots.

N-MASS

3.

To compost things such as unwanted bits of plants means to make them into compost.

Cut down and compost spent cucumbers, tomatoes and other crops...

VERB : V n

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