Manurial

//məˈnʌɹ.i.əl// adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to manure.

    "1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XXVI, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt I understood from Anscra that all the filth and refuse of the settlement—except a certain portion kept for manurial purposes, and sent to the plantation—was thrown into this torrent nightly and swept perhaps hundreds of miles away."

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"1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XXVI, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt I understood from Anscra that all the filth and refuse of the settlement—except a certain portion kept for manurial purposes, and sent to the plantation—was thrown into this torrent nightly and swept perhaps hundreds of miles away."

Etymology

From manure + -ial.

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