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manure
[ muh-noor, -nyoor ]
noun
- excrement, especially of animals, or other refuse used as fertilizer.
- any natural or artificial substance for fertilizing the soil.
verb (used with object)
- to treat (land) with fertilizing matter; apply manure to.
manure
/ məˈnjʊə /
noun
- animal excreta, usually with straw, used to fertilize land
- any material, esp chemical fertilizer, used to fertilize land
verb
- tr to spread manure upon (fields or soil)
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Derived Forms
- maˈnurer, noun
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Other Words From
- ma·nurer noun
- ma·nuri·al adjective
- ma·nuri·al·ly adverb
- well-ma·nured adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of manure1
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Example Sentences
Fresh manure was always around, but I ignored it, as Anne must have done at Green Gables.
I went to get a bag of horse manure and I make it liquid, like a porridge, and then ... bam!
Much of what they like to eat is stuff we throw out anyway: wood chips, manure and trash.
Also, Seoul will move to cut off its recent shipments of rice and manure to the North.
The substance so used is called a special manure; that containing all the constituents of the crop is a general manure.
What is true of the nitrogenous matters applies with still greater force to the mineral constituents of the manure.
Well rotten dung, which had been kept in the manure heap upwards of six months.
In this case, during the winter six months, which were very dry, the manure lost 541·8 lbs.
When the food is rich in nitrogenous compounds, the value of the manure is considerably increased.
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