barnyard
of, relating to, or typical of a barnyard: barnyard noises; simple paintings of barnyard life.
indecent; smutty; vulgar: His barnyard humor made us all blush.
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How to use barnyard in a sentence
As it turns out, there might be a barnyard animal that is even better at using the toilet than tots and kittens—and the impact that might have on the environment could be huge.
Potty-trained cows could seriously help the planet | Sara Kiley Watson | September 16, 2021 | Popular-ScienceThis feature is present — and helpful — in the barnyard example, where the easiest attribute to solve for is horns.
New Algorithm Breaks Speed Limit for Solving Linear Equations | Kevin Hartnett | March 8, 2021 | Quanta MagazineA common example of a linear system — also likely familiar to math students — involves a barnyard filled with chickens and pigs.
New Algorithm Breaks Speed Limit for Solving Linear Equations | Kevin Hartnett | March 8, 2021 | Quanta MagazineManure from barnyard animals is rich in vitamins, minerals, fats and more.
It’s using newer gene-editing tools to create thousands of pigs immune to some common, and deadly, viruses that affect barnyards.
What’s on the GMO menu: fast-growing salmon and slow-swimming tuna | Katie McLean | December 11, 2020 | MIT Technology Review
This isn't a comic, it's a Beckett play with barnyard animals.
When I went into the barnyard,” he explained later during an interview, “I never saw a chicken leading a group of turkeys.
On Tuesday morning, Chanel went where Chanel has never gone before: to the barnyard.
He is even more full of mischief than Brownie and loves to run after all the other animals in the barnyard.
Seven O'Clock Stories | Robert Gordon AndersonJehosophat, Marmaduke, and Hepzebiah do not like one barnyard neighbour very much.
Seven O'Clock Stories | Robert Gordon AndersonTomorrow night, if you are good all day, we will tell you about the rest of the barnyard friends of the three happy children.
Seven O'Clock Stories | Robert Gordon AndersonSo they romped away to the barnyard to chase the frightened White Wyandottes.
Seven O'Clock Stories | Robert Gordon AndersonWhen she reached the barnyard gate Dic was hitching the horses to the "big wagon."
A Forest Hearth: A Romance of Indiana in the Thirties | Charles Major
British Dictionary definitions for barnyard
/ (ˈbɑːnˌjɑːd) /
a yard adjoining a barn, in which farm animals are kept
(modifier) belonging to or characteristic of a barnyard
(modifier) crude or earthy: barnyard humour
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