dung

noun
🔊/dʌŋ/
🔊/dʌŋ/
[uncountable]
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  1. solid waste from animals, especially from large ones(尤指大型动物的)粪 synonym manure
    • cow dung牛粪
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryDung is used after these nouns:
    • cow
    • elephant
    • horse
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    Word OriginOld English, of Germanic origin; related to German Dung, Swedish dynga, Icelandic dyngja ‘dung, dunghill, heap’, and Danish dynge ‘heap’.