the waste matter from animals that is spread over or mixed with the soil to help plants and crops grow synonym dung粪肥;肥料 Dig plenty of well-rotted manure into the soil. 把大量腐烂的肥料挖到土壤里。 the best time to spread manure on the fields 在田里施粪肥的最佳时机
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- animal
- chicken
- cow
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- apply
- spread
- production
- application
- disposal
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Word Originlate Middle English (as a verb in the sense ‘cultivate (land)’): from Anglo-Norman French mainoverer, Old French manouvrer , from medieval Latin manuoperare from Latin manus ‘hand’ + operari ‘to work’. The noun sense dates from the mid 16th cent.