lant
Aged urine, historically used by the Anglo-Saxons and others as fertilizer for high…Aged urine, historically used by the Anglo-Saxons and others as fertilizer for high nitrogen content.
Meaning
2 senses(uncountable)Aged urine, historically used by the Anglo-Saxons and others as fertilizer for high nitrogen content.
Any of several species of slender marine fishes of the genus Ammodytes, including the common European species (Ammodytes tobianus) and the American species (Ammodytes americanus).
Origin
Alteration of earlier land (“urine”), from Middle English *land (“urine”), from Old EnglisAlteration of earlier land (“urine”), from Middle English *land (“urine”), from Old English hland (“urine”), from Proto-West Germanic *hland, from Proto-Germanic *hlandą (“urine”), from Proto-Indo-European *klān- (“liquid, wet ground”). Cognate with Icelandic hland (“urine”), Norwegian Nynorsk land (“urine”).
Compare lance.
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Forms
plural: lants| Singular | lant |
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uncountable
Synonyms
4 synonymsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
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