dung
IPA: dˈʌŋ
noun
- (uncountable) Manure; animal excrement.
- (countable) A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal.
- A female given name from Vietnamese
- A male given name from Vietnamese
verb
- (transitive) To fertilize with dung.
- (transitive, calico printing) To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung, done to remove the superfluous mordant.
- (intransitive) To release dung: to defecate.
- (colloquial) To discard (especially rubbish); to chuck out.
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Examples of "dung" in Sentences
- Spraint or scat is the dung of the otter.
- The site was covered by heaps of cow dung.
- The dung is supplied to the power plant from.
- The fly breeds in large numbers in dung pads.
- Cow dung is the waste of bovine animal species.
- The dung beetle continues even after loosing the dung ball.
- The entire article is full of misinformation and bull dung.
- Most of the beetles of this subfamily feed exclusively on dung.
- The fruiting bodies of the fungi then grow from the animal dung.
- During the larval stage, the beetle feeds on the dung surrounding it.