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wormeries in British English wormery in British English (ˈwɜːmərɪ) nounWord forms: plural -eries1. a piece of apparatus, having a glass side or sides, in which worms are kept for study 2. a container in which worms are kept, esp one in which they consume household waste and convert it into compost Examples of 'wormeries' in a sentencewormeries They went organic this year, and also run wormeries and collect rainwater.Wormeries are sold as kits, complete with the founders of your new worm colony.And for 2009 there's new equipment up for grabs too, including state-of-the-art wormeries.You will know them by their window boxes, groaning with herbs, and by their wormeries made from old boxes.In artificial wormeries the liquid has to be drained away and the worms kept aloft in the undigested matter.The economic market for wormeries therefore will always lie in the hardware rather than in the worms themselves.Wormeries: this is a good solution for a small household that doesn't generate much waste.The show's new eco-section will also have displays of organic pest solutions, composters, wormeries and peat-free plants.Business has never been so good for the suppliers of wormeries, whose trade is beginning to lose its obscurity. |