(n.) An accumulation of refuse about a dwelling place; especially, an accumulation of shells or of cinders, bones, and other refuse on the supposed site of the dwelling places of prehistoric tribes, -- as on the shores of the Baltic Sea and in many other places. See Kitchen middens.
Example Sentences:
(1) Outbreaks of coccidioidomycosis and isolation of Coccidioides immitis have been reported from Amerindian middens.
(2) Results showed that a high percentage of the midden soils contained C. immitis, whereas none of the adjacent, nonmidden soils yielded the fungus.
(3) Physicochemical analyses revealed that the dark color and alkaline pH of the midden soils were due to past organic contamination.
(4) 'We are protectors, not protesters': why I'm fighting the North Dakota pipeline Read more Kandi Mossett, an organiser with the Indigenous Environmental Network explains: “There are sacred sites out here, there are midden pile sites, historic sites.
(5) In Chile in 1962, two Italian journalists wrote pieces comparing the host country to a midden – not particularly tactfully, as there had been an earthquake two years previously killing 6,000 people – and so the home team responded to the slight by hoofing the Azzurri around like old socks in the infamous David Coleman baiting Battle of Santiago .
(6) The shell midden habitation and cemetery site originally yielded the remains of 390 individuals.
(7) The physicochemical properties of the midden soils were compared with nonmidden soils and positive soils.
(8) The pathogens do not survive very long in stored farmyard manure because of the temperatures and biological and biochemical activities prevailing in the middens.
(9) Not that global warming is a reality for anyone but a few scaremongering communists who want us all to eat nettles and live in middens.