midden
a dunghill or refuse heap.
Origin of midden
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This can lead to the description of new species, as happened with Ptinus priminidi, a never-before-seen spider beetle plucked out of a midden in modern-day Arizona in 1976.
What’s in a packrat’s petrified pee? Just a few thousand years of secrets. | Rachel Feltman | August 12, 2021 | Popular-ScienceAs successive generations of packrats add layer after layer to a midden, they slowly build boulder-sized masses in caves, cliff faces, and other nooks and crannies that can persist for millennia.
What’s in a packrat’s petrified pee? Just a few thousand years of secrets. | Rachel Feltman | August 12, 2021 | Popular-ScienceThis dissolves the amberat that holds the midden matrix together.
What’s in a packrat’s petrified pee? Just a few thousand years of secrets. | Rachel Feltman | August 12, 2021 | Popular-ScienceOver the years, he’s handled hundreds of middens—and smelled them, too.
What’s in a packrat’s petrified pee? Just a few thousand years of secrets. | Rachel Feltman | August 12, 2021 | Popular-ScienceOf course, to render a midden scientifically valuable, you need more than a sensitive nose.
What’s in a packrat’s petrified pee? Just a few thousand years of secrets. | Rachel Feltman | August 12, 2021 | Popular-Science
He'll shoot higher that shoots at the moon, than he that shoots at the midden, e'en though he may miss his mark.
The Proverbs of Scotland | Alexander HislopSir Banas, he comes in the night and makes them all alive at the back of our kitchen-midden,' piped the child.
Kim | Rudyard KiplingPossibly the party kept too far inland to see the shell midden sites along the Bay shore.
"Saft beddin's gude for sair banes," quo' Howie when he streekit himsel on the midden-head.
The Proverbs of Scotland | Alexander HislopWhether they be remnants of an elevated sea-beach, or of some Indian ‘kitchen-midden,’ I dare not decide.
At Last | Charles Kingsley
British Dictionary definitions for midden
/ (ˈmɪdən) /
archaic, or dialect a dunghill or pile of refuse
dialect a dustbin
Northern English dialect an earth closet
See kitchen midden
Origin of midden
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