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nounfecal matter of animalstype of:
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verbdefecate; used of animalstype of:
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"you must dung the land"verbfertilize or dress with dung
Definition that contains dung
- chip a piece of dried bovine dung
- dung fertilize or dress with dung
- oubliette a dungeon with the only entrance or exit being a trap door in the ceiling
- dunghill a heap of dung or refuse
- midden a heap of dung or refuse
- tumbrel a farm dumpcart for carrying dung; carts of this type were used to carry prisoners to the guillotine during the French Revolution
- blowfly large usually hairy metallic blue or green fly; lays eggs in carrion or dung or wounds
- cow chip a piece of dried bovine dung
- black hole of calcutta a dungeon (20 feet square) in a fort in Calcutta where as many as 146 English prisoners were held overnight by Siraj-ud-daula; the next morning only 23 were still alive
- myxobacteriaceae bacteria living mostly in soils and on dung