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stool

noun

Definition of stool

as in feces

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Recent Examples of stool How Shigella is spread Bacteria infect people when swallowed, and it is found in stool. — Charlotte Observer, 16 Oct. 2026 The nesting tables are by Frederick Kiesler, the lamp is Gino Sarfatti design, and the stool is Poul Kjærholm’s PK91. — Leonora Epstein, Architectural Digest, 14 Oct. 2026 The device is nothing but a small stool (pardon the pun) that fits around the base of one’s toilet. — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Oct. 2026 In a new study published in Science on Thursday, researchers collected stool samples from more than 170 people before and after a second or third dose of a COVID vaccine. — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 9 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for stool

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Noun

Remember, without the suction and sealing, poop and pee would simply float around the bathroom.

— Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2026
As gamers await the release of Grand Theft Auto VI next month, South Park once again took aim at the upcoming game, this time armed with dog poop.

— Glenn Garner, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of poop

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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

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Cooks in the Farm-to-Fork capital can choose between organic turkeys, heritage breeds with more dark meat and complex flavors, and poultry raised using regenerative agricultural practices which protect soil health.

— Anne Ewbank, Sacbee.com, 6 Nov. 2026
Florida began establishing soil and water conservation districts as far back as the 1930s, charging them with carrying out local programs to conserve and protect soil, water and land for agricultural purposes.

— Beth Kassab, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of soil

Noun

Changes in Maryland’s climate also have affected her farm, inspiring her and Dear to embrace organic farming practices, including fermenting wood chips into manure rather than using fertilizer.

— Tinashe Chingarande, Baltimore Sun, 5 Nov. 2026
The funds have gone to programs and projects to restore wetlands, expand natural buffers around fields, shore up rural roads against erosion, upgrade stormwater drains and improve manure storage on dairy farms.

— Jonathan Mingle, ProPublica, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of manure

Noun

Whisper, another rescue dog with Rogue Detection Teams, rolled around enthusiastically with her rope toy in the courtyard after successfully identifying some scat.

— Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026
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

Definition of scat

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

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