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kitchen midden

kitchen midden noun: an ancient refuse heap composed primarily of domestic waste from daily meals, such as animal bones, mollusc shells, charcoal, and broken tools.

Noun

kitchen midden (plural kitchen middens)

  1. An ancient refuse heap composed primarily of domestic waste from daily meals, such as animal bones, mollusc shells, charcoal, and broken tools.
    • The chief food of the people was evidently shell-fish, since great heaps of the shells had accumulated in the shallow water between the houses and the land, forming a regular "kitchen-midden" for the exploration of some future archeologist.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 358

Forms of kitchen midden

pluralkitchen middens

Questions about kitchen midden

What does kitchen midden mean?
Kitchen midden means an ancient refuse heap composed primarily of domestic waste from daily meals, such as animal bones, mollusc shells, charcoal, and broken tools.
What part of speech is kitchen midden?
Kitchen midden is a noun.
What is the plural of kitchen midden?
The plural of kitchen midden is kitchen middens.

Words near kitchen midden in the dictionary

  1. kitchen islands
  2. Kitchen Kaffir
  3. Kitchen Kafir
  4. kitchen knife
  5. kitchen knives
  6. kitchen midden
  7. kitchen middens
  8. kitchen paper
  9. kitchen papers
  10. kitchen pass
  11. kitchen passes

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