animal faeces or other waste material used to fertilize land and make plants grow better.
The farmer spread manure on the field to help the crops grow.
Cow manure makes excellent fertilizer for vegetable gardens.
✦ From Middle English 'manure' ('to work [land] with the hands'), from Anglo-Norman 'manovrer', from Old French 'manovrer', from Medieval Latin 'manuoperāre' ('to work by hand'). Originally meant manual cultivation of soil.
to apply animal waste to land or plants as fertilizer.
Farmers often manure their fields in spring.
She manures the rose bushes every year.
