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Manures vs Vermicompost - What's the difference?

manures | vermicompost |

As verbs the difference between manures and vermicompost

is that manures is third-person singular of manure while vermicompost is to employ worms to break down organic waste into soil or humus.

As a noun vermicompost is

the product of worm composting; worm castings.

manures

English

Verb

(head)
  • (manure)

    • Anagrams

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    manure

    English

    Verb

    (manur)
  • To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture.
  • * Surrey
    • to whom we gave the strand for to manure
  • * John Donne
    • Manure thyself then; to thyself be improved; / And with vain, outward things be no more moved.
  • To apply manure (as fertilizer or soil improver).
    • The farmer manured his fallow field.
  • * Shakespeare
    • The blood of English shall manure the ground.

    Derived terms

    * manurable

    See also

    * to fertilize

    Noun

  • Animal excrement, especially that of common domestic farm animals and when used as fertilizer. Generally speaking, from cows, horses, sheep, pigs and chickens.
  • * '>citation
  • Any fertilizing substance, whether of animal origin or not.
  • * Sir Humphry Davy
    • Malt dust consists chiefly of the infant radicle separated from the grain. I have never made any experiment upon this manure ; but there is great reason to suppose it must contain saccharine matter; and this will account for its powerful effects.

    Derived terms

    * humanure

    See also

    * fertilizer * muck

    vermicompost

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To employ worms to break down organic waste into soil or humus

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • the product of worm composting; worm castings

    • Synonyms

    * (product of worm composting) vermicast

    See also

    * ("vermicompost" on Wikipedia)