Superphosphate

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A fertilizer produced by the action of concentrated sulfuric acid on powdered phosphate rock. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    A phosphate containing the greatest amount of phosphoric acid that can combine with the base. countable, uncountable

Etymology

From super- + phosphate.

Related phrases

More for "superphosphate"

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.