frass

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When weighing the produce, left-overs, frass, webbing, pest carcasses and rodent droppings are also weighed.

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  • When weighing the produce, left-overs, frass, webbing, pest carcasses and rodent droppings are also weighed. —  3. Post - harvest losses
  • We also clean out the bags of chewed up stems and caterpillar poo, which is called "frass." —  TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
  • Over here, we are celebrating what chewed leaves, in this particular case, chewed tomato leaves, turn into: frass, that is, insect shit. —  SNAIL'S TALES
  • There's a door at the back of the box for putting in green leaves and cleaning out the frass. " —  The Cat Who Sang For The Birds
  • They then use their silk (all caterpillars have silk-producing glands in their mouths) to glue tiny pieces of their excrement (frass) to the end of the midvein, elongating it by as much as ½ "(it helps to have a hand lens or magnifying loupe to see this). —  Museum Blogs
 

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  1. German, feed, result of eating, insect damage, from Middle High German vrâz, from Old High German frāz, from frezzan, to eat; see ed- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. German frass, food for swine, nasty food (Old High German frāz, food), from Old High German frezzen, German fressen, = Anglo-Saxon fretan, eat, devour: see fret.
 

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/frɑs/
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