manure
manures; manuring; manured
Gardeners use the word manure to mean a fertilizer made from animal waste. Manure is good for helping plants grow and stay healthy.
When you spread manure on your vegetable garden, you're feeding the soil and plants with nutrients that encourage growth. The manure itself might be, for example, a combination of cow dung and straw, or slightly decomposed chicken waste. Sometimes the word manure is used for any kind of fertilizer, including those made entirely from plants. The earliest meaning of manure was "to cultivate land," from an Old French root word, manouvrer, "to work with the hands or cultivate."
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any animal or plant material used to fertilize land especially animal excreta usually with litter material
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types:
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chicken manure
chicken excreta used as fertilizer
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cow manure
cow excreta used as fertilizer
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green manure
a growing crop that is plowed under to enrich soil
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horse manure
horse excreta used as fertilizer
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night soil
human excreta used as fertilizer
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type of:
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organic, organic fertiliser, organic fertilizer
a fertilizer that is derived from animal or vegetable matter
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spread manure, as for fertilization
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synonyms:
muck
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type of:
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scatter, spread, spread out
strew or distribute over an area
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scatter, spread, spread out
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