| 单词 | manure |
| 释义 | manure (once / 832 pages) nv 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." WORD FAMILYmanure: manured, manures, manuring USAGE EXAMPLESDairy operators said Heartland is the one of the few, if the only, option available for getting rid of manure. Washington Times(Dec 28, 2016) His four other Iowa firms mainly manufacture agricultural equipment like manure spreaders and bale feeders. Washington Times(Dec 25, 2016) The buildings, which reek of disinfectant and manure, form extraordinarily efficient egg-producing machines. New York Times(Dec 23, 2016) 1n any animal or plant material used to fertilize land especially animal excreta usually with litter material Hypo|Hyper chicken manure chicken excreta used as fertilizer cow manurecow excreta used as fertilizer green manurea growing crop that is plowed under to enrich soil horse manurehorse excreta used as fertilizer night soilhuman excreta used as fertilizer organic, organic fertiliser, organic fertilizer a fertilizer that is derived from animal or vegetable matter 2v spread manure, as for fertilization Syn|Hyper muck scatter, spread, spread out strew or distribute over an area |
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