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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Animal physiology: excrement & its excretion
accident
anal fissure
bathroom
bodily function
bowel
cowpat
defecate
dog dirt
dunghill
excreta
excrete
go to the bathroomidiom
motion
movement
pass
pellet
poo
poop
regular
stool

Examples from literature

Compost is like dung – full of nutrients for the soil. 
Maybe someone you know uses elephant dung to grow their flowers or food! 
These animals also eat grass, so their dung is good for the soil. 
Zoos sell the dung of elephants, giraffes, and rhinoceroses to farmers. 
Dry Cattle-dung.—The dry dung of cattle and other animals, as found on the ground, is very generally used throughout the world, in default of better fuel, and there is nothing whatever objectionable in employing it. 
In the fermentation of dung, a very considerable proportion of the organic matters in fresh manure is dissipated into the air in the form of carbonic acid and other gases. 
No fecal matter, dung, garbage, or entrails of animals killed shall be put into ditches or rivers or other waters, so that maladies and diseases will not be caused by corrupted and infected air. 
On further examination we found the dung of camels and horse or horses evidently tied up a long time ago. 
We don't know what some of them were doing, but one was carting dung up the hill-side. 

dung | American Dictionary

dung
noun[ U ]
us/dʌŋ/
solid excrement from animals, esp. cattle and horses; manure

Examples of dung

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Granivores were even able to locate seeds from which dung beetles had removed the surrounding faeces.
Endozoochorous dispersal can affect seed viability through the digestion process and also after defecation, when seeds are returned to the soil amongst the dung.
This species is a conspicuous north temperate dung-breeding fly that is common on and around livestock dung, especially in spring months.
First, emergence in dung from treated cattle was lower than that observed for untreated cattle.
Colonization of experimental pats by dung beetles after three weeks was expected to be minimal.
Other mechanisms, including resource partitioning are likely to play a greater role in maintaining the diversity of dung beetle assemblages in the region.
The dung produced as a result was more fertile than ordinary types.
For each collection day and cattle group the dung was thoroughly mixed and then frozen until needed.
One of its constituent parts is the animal dung that contains only material that has passed through the animal digestive system.
The apparent discrepancy between the low effect of moxidectin on insects versus its effect of dung degradation suggests the confounding action of other unidentified factors.
A second set of three independent experiments was performed to assess the effect of endectocide treatment on dung degradation.
They did not have brass pots, so they used mostly unglazed pottery which cannot stand 'any fire fiercer than the smouldering one given by dung'.
For germination trials, seeds were collected from fresh elephant dung (passed) and fresh fruits (unpassed) and planted in seedling cups filled with soil.
They swallow the seeds of the majority of these and disperse them by depositing them intact in dung.
The fly larvae also feed on dung constituents and both adults and larvae may therefore be exposed to residues of synthetic pyrethroids.
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