manurial
English
Etymology
manure + -ial
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /mə.ˈnʌɹ.i.əl/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /mə.ˈnjʊəɹ.ɪ.əl/, /mə.ˈnjɔːɹ.ɪəl/
Adjective
manurial (comparative more manurial, superlative most manurial)
- 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,
- 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.
- 1917, Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland
- Birds' dung has been held in high regard since time immemorial as a fertiliser, and the fact that this wonderful new manure was composed of birds' dung, and had a strong manurial smell, undoubtedly helped it to come rapidly into favour among farmers.
- 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,
References
- manurial in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- “manurial”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.