DROPPINGS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does droppings mean? 

• DROPPINGS (noun)
  The noun DROPPINGS has 1 sense:

1. fecal matter of animals

  Familiarity information: DROPPINGS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DROPPINGS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fecal matter of animals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

droppings; dung; muck

Hypernyms ("droppings" is a kind of...):

BM; dejection; faecal matter; faeces; fecal matter; feces; ordure; stool (solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "droppings"):

buffalo chip; chip; cow chip; cow dung (a piece of dried bovine dung)

coprolite (fossil excrement; petrified dung)

pigeon droppings (droppings of pigeons)

cow pie; cowpie (fecal matter of a cow)

 Context examples 

They shed the virus in their urine, droppings, and saliva.

(Hantavirus Infections, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

A respiratory disorder due to an acquired hypersensitivity to the dust of bird droppings.

(Bird Fancier's Lung, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

It grows in soil and material contaminated with bat or bird droppings.

(Histoplasmosis, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

As I walked to and fro in the garden, and the twilight began to close around me, their little voices were hushed; and that peculiar silence which belongs to such an evening in the country when the lightest trees are quite still, save for the occasional droppings from their boughs, prevailed.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

People can get the disease if they breathe infected air or come into contact with rodents or their urine or droppings.

(Hantavirus Infections, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)