chicken manure
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- noun
- /ˈtʃɪkən məˈnʊr/
:
estiércol de pollo
- Since early this year, organizations like the National Broiler Council, National Turkey Federation, and the U.S. Poultry and Egg Association have been discussing ways to change their operations, including finding alternative uses for chicken manure.
- composting chicken manure
Examples
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You can put some chicken manure on, but you can't spray or dump something that massively increases the growing potential of the land.
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So I said, "What you gotta do is get some chicken manure.
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Company sees chicken manure handling as natural progression.
Academic text (2000) -
Some of the chicken manure has become dry and hard in sandy form; therefore, bulking agents or amendments are not needed.
Academic text (1998) -
Around the bay, this could include huge poultry factories that produce enormous amounts of chicken manure.
Academic text (2005) -
It's chicken manure I add to my compost, but you can't put too much in or it will burn hot.
Fiction book (1996) -
Grandma One Rock spent the day alone in the garden, mixing buckets of chicken manure with soil and filling in the giant hole.
Fiction book (1993) -
Chicken manure is hauled from a large egg farm approximately two hours north of Middlebury.
Academic text (2000) -
The European plant converts roughly 440,000 tons of chicken manure into enough renewable electricity to power 90,000 homes annually.
Blog text (25) -
Farmers often use chicken manure to enrich their soil, promoting healthier plant growth.
Synonyms
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2.9
Animal or plant waste spread on soil to help plants grow
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2.8
The waste animals produce that is often used to fertilize soil
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3.2
Droppings from horses used to make soil richer
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1.8
Dung from cows that people put on soil to help plants grow
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Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'chicken' (a domesticated bird) + 'manure' (animal waste used as fertilizer) yields 'manure from chickens', which a B1 learner who knows both words can infer. This noun-noun compound follows a common and cross-linguistically frequent formation for specifying the source of manure, making it transparently interpretable.
Etymology
Chicken manure comes from the simple picture of a chicken leaving manure (droppings) that farmers collect and spread on fields. People found these droppings act as a 'fertilizer' to make soil richer, so chicken manure means manure from chickens used to help plants grow.