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Another word for manure

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Noun
      1. Any natural or artificial fertilizer resembling this, as bat dung
      2. Any of various similar substances, such as a fertilizer prepared from ground fish parts.
      3. A substance composed chiefly of the dung of seabirds or bats, accumulated along certain coastal areas or in caves and used as fertilizer.
      1. A mixture; compound
      2. Decayed organic matter used as a soil fertilizer and made variously from grass clippings, leaves, kitchen scraps, manure, etc. that are combined and allowed to decompose in a pile (compost heap) or bin
    See also:

    dung

    fertilizer

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Sentence Examples

  • They actually had some horse manure boxed up and ready to ship.

  • Although good crops may follow the application of lime, the latter is not a direct fertilizer or manure and is no substitute for such.

  • Have manure put up in heaps and mixed with earth."

  • Its industrial establishments include factories for tobacco, cloth, matches, leather, artificial manure, besides breweries and distilleries.

  • Most of the nitrogen in the straw of the cereals, and a very large proportion of that of the much more highly nitrogenyielding crops, returns to the land as manure, for the benefit of future cereals and other crops.

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