Thesaurus results for DROPPINGS

droppings

noun

plural of dropping

as in dirt

solid matter discharged from an animal's alimentary canal the only bad part about owning a rabbit was cleaning the droppings out of the litter box every night

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Recent Examples of droppings Several food establishments had issues with roaches, and the inspector also found what appeared to be rat droppings inside a drink cooler at the QuikTrip located at 6601 Brentwood Stair Road. — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Aug. 2026 On mud lanes slick with goat droppings, homes press against each other. — Kamala Thiagarajan, NPR, 1 Aug. 2026 There were another four droppings next to a kitchen reach-in cooler. — David J. Neal july 31, Miami Herald, 31 July 2026 The bright pink color of the penguins' droppings stands out in satellite imagery, allowing researchers to monitor the birds' populations from space. — Brett Tingley, Space.com, 30 July 2026 For hornbills, breeding begins when the female enters a hollow in a large tree trunk, and the pair seals the entrance with mud, fruit pulp and droppings with a narrow slit. — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 28 July 2026 When commercial extraction began in the 1840s, workers were not simply shoveling loose bird droppings. — Edward D. Melillo, Fortune, 27 July 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for droppings

Noun

Store them in dedicated shoe bags Getting dirt and grime from your shoes on your clean clothes won’t end your trip early.

— Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 8 Aug. 2026
This fall delivers special access to Keeneland’s 90th anniversary and, for the first time since 2020, the Breeders' Cup World Championships back on its own dirt and turf.

— Jill Barth, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of dirt

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

Once the plastic ends up in a landfill, the tubes slowly fragment into microplastics that can get into the air, soil, and water.

— Anne Makovec, CBS News, 7 Aug. 2026
Struck again on home soil by an audacious, if nongovernmental, enemy, the United States was again at war.

— Tracy Grant, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of soil

Noun

Realizing they are being had, Cubans respond to their government on the chat with emojis of excrement or the US flag.

— Patrick Oppmann, CNN Money, 15 July 2026
The intense, carrion-like odor of the slime attracts insects, which then eat the slime and excrete it, with the spores later germinating in the excrement.

— Leah Hudson, Popular Science, 9 July 2026

Definition of excrement

Noun

As the team explained, the poop responsible for modern ocean conditions is not much different from the poop on land—and the fertilizer used to grow everyone’s food.

— Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 5 Aug. 2026
As a local yearly restaurant tradition, on the flip side of Miami Spice, there’s now North Miami Beach’s Le Genie failing state inspection in a flurry of flies and/or rodent poop.

— David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of poop

Noun

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
Promising new studies are beginning to identify what cats eat by analyzing the DNA found in their stomachs and scat.

— Christopher A. Lepczyk, The Conversation, 8 July 2026