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noun
excrement, especially of animals; manure.
verb (used with object)
to manure (ground) with or as if with dung.
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before 1000; Middle English, Old English; cognate with Low German, German dung; compare Icelandic dyngja heap, dung, Swedish dynga dung, muck, Old High German tunga manuring
Trying to convert people who are using animal dung as fuel — obviously that would require a technological solution that may require more energy from the grid.
We need to get to the women, in particular, who cook on open fires with animal dung, coal, wood and ingest and die in very large numbers from that inhalation.
The dung likely comes from an extinct dinosaur relative called Silesaurus opolensis, which lived around 237 million to 227 million years ago during the Triassic Period.