neem cake
- noun
- Indian
:
torta de neem
- Farmers often use neem cake as a natural fertilizer and soil conditioner.
Examples
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After extracting oil from the seeds, the remaining neem cake contains valuable nutrients for plants.
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Organic gardening stores sometimes sell neem cake for pest control and soil enrichment.
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Farmers often use neem cake as a natural pesticide.
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The neem cake is rich in nutrients.
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After extracting oil from the seeds, the remaining neem cake contains valuable nutrients for plants.
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Farmers often use neem cake as a natural fertilizer and soil conditioner.
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Organic gardening stores sometimes sell neem cake for pest control and soil enrichment.
Synonyms
Solid material left after oil is taken from cotton seeds used to feed animals or as fertilizer
Solid material left after people remove oil from cotton seeds used to feed animals or help plants grow
The ground leftover from seeds after oil is removed, used mainly as animal feed or plant food
A pressed block of seeds left after their oil is removed and used as animal feed
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun phrase is compositionally straightforward: 'neem' + 'cake' signals a compact mass derived from neem, so learners who know 'cake' can mean a solid lump/residue will infer it's a neem-derived solid. However, the precise technical sense — that it is the residue left after oil extraction and its typical use as fertilizer/pesticide — is specialized and not fully predictable for an average B1 learner, making the expression only partially transparent.
Etymology
Neem cake comes from the hard cake left after pressing oil from neem seeds. This solid leftover is full of plant food and helps keep pests away, so the name now means a natural 'fertilizer' and 'pesticide' used in gardens and fields.
