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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Human excrement collected for use as fertilizer.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The contents of privies, etc. (generally removed in the night), employed as a manure.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic, euphemistic Human
faeces .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun human excreta used as fertilizer
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