mid·den /ˈmɪdṇ/
貝塚,堆肥
Mid·den n. [Also midding.]
1. A dunghill. [Prov. Eng.]
2. An accumulation of refuse about a dwelling place; especially, an accumulation of shells or of cinders, bones, and other refuse on the supposed site of the dwelling places of prehistoric tribes, -- as on the shores of the Baltic Sea and in many other places. See Kitchen middens.
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midden
n 1: (archeology) a mound of domestic refuse containing shells
and animal bones marking the site of a prehistoric
settlement [syn: eitchen midden, kitchen midden]
2: a heap of dung or refuse [syn: dunghill, muckheap, muckhill]