cow manure
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- noun
- /kaʊ məˈnʊr/
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- Farmers often use cow manure to fertilize their crops and improve soil quality.
- composted cow manure
So I went to a farm and got some fresh cow manure for you to work with.
- So I went to a farm and got some fresh cow manure for you to work with.
- And so this, this, this composted cow manure is going to be great for you.
Examples
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Food scraps are emptied onto a prepared bed of cow manure on the concrete pad.
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A propane-powered dehydrator is used on some of the composted cow manure.
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So I went to a farm and got some fresh cow manure for you to work with.
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You know this dried cow manure is hard to roll.
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And so this, this, this composted cow manure is going to be great for you.
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The resort gets free sawdust-bedded cow manure each year from a neighbor's farm, in return for a resort golf membership.
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But unlike cities, dairies lack sewage treatment plants and thus apply cow manure to open fields and farmland.
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Cow manure, in particular, figures prominently in the composted soil amendments that are central to biodynamic practice.
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In 1980, the Fosters built an anaerobic digester to reduce the amount of cow manure spread on their farmlands.
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Walt Nuding, a Montgomery County farmer, began composting as a way to recycle the large amount of cow manure generated on his farm.
Academic text (1995)
Synonyms
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Animal or plant waste spread on soil to help plants grow
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The waste animals produce that is often used to fertilize soil
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Solid waste that leaves the body after it digests food
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A solid waste that cows make and people use as fertilizer or fuel
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Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'manure' denotes animal/plant waste used as fertilizer and 'cow' simply specifies the source, so 'cow manure' clearly means dung from cows used as fertilizer. This literal, cross-linguistically common noun + noun composition follows regular English patterns and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Cow manure is a plain, literal name for the manure, the dung from a cow. Farmers spread it on fields as a natural 'fertilizer' to help plants grow, so the term means dung used to enrich the soil.