road apple
road apple noun: horse manure, especially when deposited on a road.
Noun
road apple (plural road apples)
- Horse manure, especially when deposited on a road.
- Samples 7–12 contained coarsely chewed plant material; several closely resembled the "road apples" of horse and burro.1964, P. S. Martin, F. W. Sharrock, “Pollen Analysis of Prehistoric Human Feces: A New Approach to Ethnobotany”, in American Antiquity, volume 30, number 2, page 171
- Synonyms:
- street apple
Synonyms of road apple
Forms of road apple
| plural | road apples |
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Origin of road apple
Probably with reference to the supposed similarity to rotten apples.
Questions about road apple
- What does road apple mean?
- Road apple means horse manure, especially when deposited on a road.
- What part of speech is road apple?
- Road apple is a noun.
- What is the plural of road apple?
- The plural of road apple is road apples.
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