nutrient cycle
Ecology
noun
The transfer of elements essential for the nutrition of living organisms, from the organisms, to their physical surroundings, and back again, in a continuous cycle.
Origin
1940s.
- garden party
- garden pea
- garden produce
- garden rocket
- garden shears
- garden snail
- garden spider
- Garden State
- garden suburb
- garden tiger
- garden-variety
- garden warbler
- garden waste
- garderobe
- gardie
- Gardner, Ava
- Gardner, Erle Stanley
- Garfield, James Abram
- garfish
- Garganega
- garganey
- gargantua
- gargantuan
- garget
- gargle