scat
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8.8
- noun
- /skæt/
- Specialized
:
excremento
- The naturalist showed us the different types of scat left by various animals to help with species identification.
- tracks and scats
- bear scat
- scat samples
Yeah, the same sort of compounds that you find in scat in incredibly small amounts contribute to the wonderful flavor of really good pork.
- Yeah, the same sort of compounds that you find in scat in incredibly small amounts contribute to the wonderful flavor of really good pork.
- Places if you have like a lot of cats in the area around your raised beds where there might be a lot of cat scat, stuff like that, cat scat, stuff like that.
Examples
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Along the way, we stopped to examine a pile of bear scat to see what it had been feeding on.
Academic text (2001) -
People assume you can get DNA out of scat, but it's not as easy as you think.
Blog text (2) -
First, I need to see if we can find some scat.
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I found some fresh scat.
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I hear them every night, have seen their tracks and collected their scat.
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There were fresh wolf tracks in the dust and some scat too.
Fiction book (1998) -
In this remote canyon, where they now were, they had found wolf tracks and scat, though neither was fresh.
Fiction book (1998) -
Almost straightaway they'd found fresh wolf scat and tracks.
Fiction book (1998) -
We found ourselves crawling on hands and knees across massive bear tracks and through mud, scat, and the foul-smelling remains of salmon.
Fiction book (2002) -
To our dismay, we found the pad of a bear cub in the scat—a reminder of the ways of nature.
Academic text (2001)
Synonyms
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2.8
The waste animals produce that is often used to fertilize soil
Droppings of a hunted animal that people use to track it
Small piles or pellets of animal poop
Compounds
- Specialized
1
8.5
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How Big
- Specialized
1
9.9
- Specialized
4
8.8
Surface Forms
Etymology
Scat as a noun for animal droppings comes from old words for 'dung'. So scat names the small piles animals leave behind, which people study to learn which animals have been nearby.