Compost Definitions

Useful Words

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Compost Heap : نباتاتی کھاد کا ڈھیر , Top Dressing : کھاد کی تہ , Fertiliser : زرخیز بنانے والا مادہ , Loam : زرخیز زمین , Cover Crop : بچاوٴ فصل , Horse Manure : گھوڑے کے فضلے کی کھاد , Night Soil : انسانی فضلہ , Hotbed : پودوں کی کیاری , Tree Surgery : درختوں کا علاج , Decay : خرابی , Vegetate : اگانا , Maggot : مکھی کا بچہ , Dried-Up : خشک , Vegetal : نباتی , Desert : ریگستان , Mold : پھپہوندی , Herbage : چراہ گاہ , Patch : زمین کا ایک چھوٹا حصہ , Scum : گندگی کی تہ , Bush : جھاڑ جھنکاڑ , Scrabbly : درخت اور جھاڑیاں سے ڈھکا ہوا , Cockchafer : یورپی بہونرا , Browse : چارہ , Carbamide : بے رنگ حل ہو جانے والا شفاف مادہ جو میمل جانوروں کے پیشاب میں موجود ہوتا ہے , Machete : ایک بڑا چاقو , Grassland : چراہ گاہ , Heath : جھاڑ یوں والی زمین , Geographics : علم الارض , Fen : دلدل , Witch's Brew : ڈر , Composition : مرکب

Useful Words Definitions

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Compost Heap: a heap of manure and vegetation and other organic residues that are decaying to become compost.

Top Dressing: a layer of fertilizer or manure not plowed in.

Fertiliser: any substance such as manure or a mixture of nitrates used to make soil more fertile.

Loam: a rich soil consisting of a mixture of sand and clay and decaying organic materials.

Cover Crop: crop planted to prevent soil erosion and provide green manure.

Horse Manure: horse excreta used as fertilizer.

Night Soil: human excreta used as fertilizer.

Hotbed: a bed of earth covered with glass and heated by rotting manure to promote the growth of plants.

Tree Surgery: treatment of damaged or decaying trees.

Decay: an inferior state resulting from the process of decaying.

Vegetate: produce vegetation.

Maggot: the larva of the housefly and blowfly commonly found in decaying organic matter.

Dried-Up: (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture.

Vegetal: composed of vegetation or plants.

Desert: arid land with little or no vegetation.

Mold: a fungus that produces a superficial growth on various kinds of damp or decaying organic matter.

Herbage: succulent herbaceous vegetation of pasture land.

Patch: a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation.

Scum: a film of impurities or vegetation that can form on the surface of a liquid.

Bush: dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes.

Scrabbly: sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush.

Cockchafer: any of various large European beetles destructive to vegetation as both larvae and adult.

Browse: vegetation (such as young shoots, twigs, and leaves) that is suitable for animals to eat.

Carbamide: the chief solid component of mammalian urine; synthesized from ammonia and carbon dioxide and used as fertilizer and in animal feed and in plastics.

Machete: a large heavy knife used in Central and South America as a weapon or for cutting vegetation.

Grassland: land where grass or grasslike vegetation grows and is the dominant form of plant life.

Heath: a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation.

Geographics: study of the earth's surface; includes people's responses to topography and climate and soil and vegetation.

Fen: low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water.

Witch's Brew: a fearsome mixture.

Composition: a mixture of ingredients.