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- Dictionarydung/dəNG/
noun
- 1. the excrement of animals; manure.
verb
- 1. drop or spread dung on (a piece of ground).
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The meaning of DUNG is the feces of an animal : manure. How to use dung in a sentence.
Dung definition: excrement, especially of animals; manure.. See examples of DUNG used in a sentence.
noun [ U ] us / dʌŋ / Add to word list. solid excrement from animals, esp. cattle and horses; manure. (Definition of dung from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Dung is a tidy word for an untidy substance — animal poop. When farmers talk about cow dung or chicken dung, they'll probably call it manure instead. Some dung causes problems, like the runoff of pig dung into lakes and rivers, while other dung is used to help fertilize vegetable gardens.
Definition of dung noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
1. (Zoology) a. excrement, esp of animals; manure. b. (as modifier): dung cart. 2. something filthy. vb. (Agriculture) (tr) to cover (ground) with manure. [Old English: prison; related to Old High German tunc cellar roofed with dung, Old Norse dyngja manure heap] ˈdungy adj.
(countable) A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal. Wiktionary. Synonyms: muck. droppings. treddle. rejectamenta. puer. poo. ornithocopros. mute. lesses. fumet. fiants.
noun [ U ] us / dʌŋ / Add to word list. solid excrement from animals, esp. cattle and horses; manure.
Dung is faeces from animals, especially from large animals such as cattle and horses. Workers at the zoo are refusing to collect animal dung in a protest over wages. American English : dung / ˈdʌŋ /
DUNG noun. The excrement of animals used to fatten ground. Etymology: dineg, Saxon. For dung, all excrements are the refuse and putrifactions of nourishment. Francis Bacon, Natural History, №. 696.
