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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
droppings
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
bird
▪ First they discovered bird droppings in their detector and checked for other possible malfunctions, but soon ruled these out.
▪ Right in front of our eyes, three bird droppings splattered the windshield.
▪ It feeds largely on ants whose remains can be found in the birds droppings, which resemble cigarette ash.
▪ Great Swan Island was the product of hundreds of years of bird droppings.
▪ Now stained with bird droppings and weathering, it shows a pair of intertwined and horribly mutated lovers.
▪ The floor was thick with bird droppings but this would be roughly cleaned and a layer of straw put down.
▪ Inside, chamber 2f is thick with bird droppings, feathers, mangled bones and scraps of cloth.
▪ Robert would not have said that the fanlight was almost obliterated with bird droppings.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As the rodents scurry about eating Douglas fir seed, their droppings are distributed widely in the burned area of a forest.
▪ Coyote and bear scat, or droppings, were on the rough rocky gravel of the road.
▪ Gnoya Street still smelled of oil, of horse droppings, soap and axle grease.
▪ I can hear his stomach rumbling, and long to escape among the cobbles underfoot, where lovely horse droppings lie.
▪ Picking up droppings must be done regularly to keep the grazing sweet.
▪ The droppings accumulate in old pillows and mattresses.
▪ The hardwood floor was spotted with droppings, but still in fine shape.
▪ Their droppings lay about like scattered handfuls of raisins.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
droppings

droppings \droppings\ n. pl. fecal matter of animals; plural of dropping[2].

Syn: dung, muck.

Wiktionary
droppings

n. animal excrement

WordNet
droppings

n. fecal matter of animals [syn: dung, muck]

Usage examples of "droppings".

Muammar Baraka smelled a strange odor, and then he realized that the fire was burning dried animal droppings.

And behind the house was the chicken coop, a miniature of its shanty self, where conceited hens stalked complacently about peering beadily this way and that, crooning their smug song of the Sacred Vessel, and squirting their droppings in the grass with the righteousness of saints.

Brontosaurus, diplodocus, brachiosaurus, iguanodon, moschops, stegosaurus, triceratops, and other droppings were labeled by engraving on the bronze stands that held the spheres.