| 单词 | kitchen midden |
| 释义 | kitchen midden (once / 196989 pages) n WORD FAMILY kitchen midden: kitchen middens USAGE EXAMPLESThe eggs are laid in old manure heaps and kitchen middens, and the maggots, which eventually are transformed into flies, nourish themselves in those accumulations. Lankester, E. Ray (Edwin Ray), Sir, More Science From an Easy Chair(2010) Doubtless some of them may have once lived in it, and eaten of the molluscs, the shells of which are piled upon the kitchen midden. Reid, Mayne, The Land of Fire—A Tale of Adventur...(2010) Many interesting implements have been dug from these mounds, or kitchen middens as they are sometimes called. Fairbanks, Harold W. (Harold Wellman), The Western United States—A Geograp...(2010) n (archeology) a mound of domestic refuse containing shells and animal bones marking the site of a prehistoric settlement Syn|Hyper eitchen midden, midden dump, dumpsite, garbage dump, rubbish dump, trash dump, waste-yard, wasteyard a piece of land where waste materials are dumped |
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