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dunghills

noun

plural of dunghill

as in manures

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Even manures, unless composted,can contain ready-to-sprout seeds.

— Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 19 Sep. 2026
Use of animal manures and human waste to boost crops goes back even further in time.

— Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 15 Mar. 2026

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The facility had 130 rodent droppings throughout, including among debris underneath the fish tank, on the bottom shelf of the cart and rodent urine on the floor in the back upstairs room.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 16 Oct. 2026
As wildlife biologist Christina Aiello searches for droppings of bighorn sheep, which are relatively abundant, the dog duo from Rogue Detection Teams will sniff out harder-to-find bobcat and mountain lion scat.

— Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of droppings

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Wolf has never sounded more grounded than with 10 toes down in the muck.

— Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 9 Oct. 2026
As feminists fought patriarchy’s attempt to render women vulnerable socially and leave us dependent on men for money and more, the all-too-human inevitability of vulnerability and dependence got lost in the muck.

— Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 18 Sep. 2026

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