coprolite

noun

Definition of coprolitenext
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for coprolite
  1. dung
  2. excrement
  3. poop
  4. ordure
  5. scat
  6. guano
  7. manure
  8. soil
Noun
  • During the first re-inspection, the inspector saw about 10 pieces of rodent dung under the air-conditioning unit, seven in the hallway by the back door and three under storage by the hallway bathroom.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 25 Sep. 2026
  • In southern India, for example, villagers are allowing – and even paying – herders to use their land in exchange for dung, the natural fertilizer that farmers need to produce higher-value organic crops.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of dung
Noun
  • Mosquito excrement could provide valuable insight on potential pathogens.
    — Devika Rao, TheWeek, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Gulliver incredulously witnesses people attempting to extract sunbeams from cucumbers and turn excrement back into edible food.
    — Dónal Gill, The Dial, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of excrement
Noun
  • Past visitors include different types of tuna that have delighted sport fishers, and open-ocean red crabs that can change the poop color of birds that feast on them.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
  • There were over 25 poop pellets in that storage area, near the stairs where there was also a dead roach.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 18 Sep. 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
  • Sproles was a classic scat-back who had more catches than carries in three years in New Orleans.
    — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 9 Sep. 2026
  • 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
Definition of scat
Noun
  • The pink tint of the guano reveals the balance of krill and fish in the penguins’ diet, allowing scientists to monitor the remote colonies and observe how the decline of Antarctic sea ice is altering the region’s food web.
    — J. B. MacKinnon, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Ocean-going seabirds feed at sea, return to the cliffs to breed, their guano transporting marine nutrients onto land and fertilizing the ground below.
    — Sarah Kingdom, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of guano
Noun
  • Meanwhile, without the animal manure that farmers once used to enrich the soil, the farmers’ seedlings struggle to germinate.
    — Ghada Abdulfattah, Christian Science Monitor, 2 Oct. 2026
  • People tend to think of waste as trash, sewage, slag, manure and other seemingly useless or disgusting substances.
    — Edward D. Melillo, The Conversation, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of manure
Noun
  • Introduced crawling through the Trask family’s field, her black blood spattering their rich soil like a human pesticide, Cathy personifies the series’ potent blend of dread and beauty.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 1 Oct. 2026
  • During dry periods, soil-dwelling bacteria produce a compound called geosmin that deters insects such as fruit flies.
    — Gregory Wakeman, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of soil

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