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coprolite

noun

Definition of coprolite

as in dung

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Recent Examples of coprolite The team also tracked down a second upland moa coprolite that was housed in a museum. — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2025 The size and shape of coprolites can also yield useful insights. — Ars Technica, 27 Nov. 2024 The coprolites contained the remains of fish, insects and plants, and sometimes other prey animals. — Katie Hunt, CNN, 27 Nov. 2024 Certain foodstuffs in the coprolites were surprisingly undigested. — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 27 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for coprolite

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Noun

Behind the cookline equipment, the rodent dung shared space with 20 dead roaches.

— David J. Neal July 24, Miami Herald, 24 July 2026
When not elbow-deep in dino dung or outrunning raptors, Laura Dern's heartfelt performance in Jurassic Park shows why women really deserve to inherit the Earth — and all of the acting awards.

— Huntley Woods, Entertainment Weekly, 11 June 2026

Definition of dung

Noun

Another seven poop pellets sat in a cabinet drawer under the front counter cash register.

— David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 14 Aug. 2026
Clean up dog poop promptly; keep up with veterinary care and parasite prevention; and clean the bowls, bedding, crates, and toys of a pet being treated for giardia.

— Angela Haupt, Time, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of poop

Noun

On the face of it, packing the ordure of millions into open-air mounds is a terrible approach to a more livable planet, particularly in a part of the world where scavengers don’t comb through them for every salable scrap.

— Curbed, Curbed, 12 Aug. 2022
My group first watched a video, which explained that the plant’s effluent would be released into the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, a thirty-mile-long waterway built in the late nineteenth century to rid the city of its ordure.

— Elizabeth Kolbert, The New York Review of Books, 9 Feb. 2022

Definition of ordure

Noun

The researchers also note any other signs of bear activity in the area, such as footprints, scat or a sighting of a live bear.

— John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 14 Aug. 2026
Amaroq Weiss, senior wolf advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity, questioned the methodology, saying researchers collected scat only along roads and trails while excluding brushy areas where wolves may eat smaller prey.

— Scott Lebar. Story produced with AI assistance, Sacbee.com, 15 July 2026

Definition of scat

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The image above shows pinkish-orange guano staining large sections of some of the Danger Islands, Heroína Island and Beagle Island.

— Brett Tingley, Space.com, 30 July 2026
From the 1860s onward, American companies transformed Navassa into an industrial mining colony that supplied guano to farms throughout the eastern United States.

— Edward D. Melillo, Fortune, 27 July 2026

Definition of guano

Noun

Synthetic fertilizers are more likely to cause fertilizer burn than applications of aged manure, compost, or organic fertilizers.

— Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Aug. 2026
Hand weeding, rototilling, regrading to fill low spots, adding soil enhancements (manure) and finally seeding and watering.

— DP Opinion, Denver Post, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of manure

Noun

Officials had to reset Buffalo’s play clock in the first quarter so umpire Tab Slaughter could smash down loose soil in the backfield.

— Tim Graham, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2026
Add the impacts of climate change, which have resulted in warmer springs and drier soils that reduce runoff into the reservoirs, and average or above-average rainfall no longer guarantees equivalent runoff.

— Matthew Glasser, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2026

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