manure

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n. 肥料, 粪肥 vt. 施肥于

发音

UK /məˈnjʊə/
UK /məˈnjɔː/
US /məˈnʊɹ/

词形变化

manures 复数 manured manures 三单 manures manureth manuring manuring 现在分词 manured 过去式 manured 过去分词

教材释义与例句

名词

肥料；粪肥

动词

施肥于；耕种

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Animal excrement, especially that of common domestic farm animals and when used as fertilizer. Generally speaking, from cows, horses, sheep, pigs and chickens.

    肥料

    粪肥

    粪

    可数 不可数
  2. 2.

    Any fertilizing substance, whether of animal origin or not; fertiliser.

    可数 不可数 引申义

    vegetable manure [⁠= green manure⁠]

    livestock manures

    Malt dust consists chiefly of the infant radicle separated from the grain. I have never made any experiment upon this manure; but there is great reason to suppose it must contain saccharine matter; and this will account for its powerful effects.

  3. 3.

    Rubbish; nonsense; bullshit.

    可数 委婉 不可数
v.
  1. 1.

    To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture.

    古体 文学
  2. 2.

    To apply manure (as fertilizer or soil improver).

    The farmer manured his fallow field.

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

organic

下位词 3

green manure horse manure night soil
动词

同义词 1

muck

上位词 3

spread scatter spread out

相关短语

manure spreader [化] 施肥机 manure fork manure spreaders manure forks green manure 绿肥；未熟的堆肥 horse manure 马粪 poor man's manure

词源

From Middle English maynouren, manuren (“to supervise, toil”), borrowed from Anglo-Norman meinourer and Old French manovrer (whence also English maneuver, or in French manœuvrer) from Vulgar Latin *manuoperare (“work by hand”), from Latin manū (“by hand”) + operārī (“to work”).

来源：wiktionary