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kitchen middens

kitchen middens is the plural of kitchen midden.

Meaning of kitchen midden

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

Questions about kitchen middens

What is kitchen middens the plural of?
Kitchen middens is the plural of kitchen midden.

Words near kitchen middens in the dictionary

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

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