stool

noun

Definition of stoolnext
as in feces

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Recent Examples of stool Here, wood and leather stools add a distinctly rustic feel to this all-white kitchen. — Emily Williams, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Mar. 2025 The lab analyzes the stool for blood as well as genetic abnormalities associated with colorectal cancer. — Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 12 Mar. 2025 For example, the old jewelry case is now surrounded with stools to create bar-like seating in the middle of the cafe. — Justin L. MacK, Axios, 11 Mar. 2025 The half dome flush mount lights above are from Cuff Studio, while the wooden stools are from Kalon Studios. — Kristen Flanagan, Architectural Digest, 19 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for stool
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stool
  1. poop
  2. excrement
  3. dung
  4. soil
  5. night soil
  6. manure
  7. scat
  8. ordure
Noun
  • Related article Fossilized poop reveals secrets of how dinosaurs came to dominate Earth The dinosaur has been given the scientific name Duonychus tsogtbaatari, in honor of Mongolian paleontologist Khishigjav Tsogtbaatar.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 25 Mar. 2025
  • Regardless of further research results, one thing is apparently certain: Dealing with penguin poop is not an enjoyable experience.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 20 Mar. 2025
Definition of poop
Noun
  • Yogi Sahu, a resident near Chynoweth Park who had organized with his neighbors to pressure City Hall to act, recalled RV dwellers dumping human excrement into the trains, hanging underwear on trees, playing loud music and stealing packages.
    — Devan Patel, The Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2025
  • The illness is spread by the Marburg virus, which is found in the urine, saliva and excrement of Egyptian rousette bats.
    — Katherine Hignett, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
Definition of excrement
Noun
  • Another 18 dung dots decorated the cabinets, floors and shelves.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 7 Mar. 2025
  • There’s time for kids to inspect elephant dung, find bones, collect guinea fowl feathers, and make castings of lion paw prints, plus let loose in waterfalls, try catch-and-release fishing, and learn to throw spears.
    — Kathryn Romeyn, AFAR Media, 11 Feb. 2025
Definition of dung
Noun
  • Two dark-brown mushrooms stuck out of the damp soil.
    — Shayla Love, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Hydrangeas can be grown in almost any type of soil, but the soil must have good drainage.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 21 Mar. 2025
Definition of soil
Noun
  • This strategy became necessary after an errant tomato plant sprouted from a visitor's night soil back in the 1960s.
    — Amy Brady, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
  • For millennia, people collected these precious substances—often in the wee hours, giving rise to the term night soil—and used them to grow food.
    — Julia Rosen, The Atlantic, 8 Feb. 2021
Definition of night soil
Noun
  • Examples of organic lawn fertilizers include cottonseed meal, seaweed, bone meal, blood meal, and various animal manures.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Mar. 2025
  • An egg farm that houses 7.5 million hens generates hundreds of millions of pounds of manure each year.
    — Kenny Torrella, Vox, 23 Jan. 2025
Definition of manure
Noun
  • Blige also connected jazz (scat singing, riffing on a phrase, improvising wordless lines), gospel (testifying akin to a preacher delivering a sermon) and hip hop traditions.
    — Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 15 Mar. 2025
  • Despite recent concerns about an increase in cat consumption, the scientists found feline remnants in only about 4.5 percent of the scat samples.
    — Sharon Udasin, The Hill, 22 Jan. 2025
Definition of scat
Noun
  • The script was based on the 1979 French play and subsequent 1982 film Le père Noël est une ordure (Santa Claus Is a Stinker).
    — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 21 Dec. 2024
  • On the face of it, packing the ordure of millions into open-air mounds is a terrible approach to a more livable planet, particularly in a part of the world where scavengers don’t comb through them for every salable scrap.
    — Curbed, Curbed, 12 Aug. 2022
Definition of ordure

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