(n)(archeology) a mound of domestic refuse containing shells and animal bones marking the site of a prehistoric settlement, Syn.midden, kitchen midden

alaskan brown bear

(n)brown bear of coastal Alaska and British Columbia, Syn.Kodiak, Kodiak bear, Ursus arctos middendorffi, Ursus middendorffi

dunghill

(n)a heap of dung or refuse, Syn.midden, muckhill, muckheap

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE) v.0.53Collaborative International Dictionary (GCIDE)

Kitchen middens

pos>n. pl. [ Dan. kjök-kenmöddings kitchen leavings; cf. Scot. midden a dunghill. ] Relics of neolithic man found on the coast of Denmark, consisting of shell mounds, some of which are ten feet high, one thousand feet long, and two hundred feet wide. The name is applied also to similar mounds found on the American coast from Canada to Florida, made by the North American Indians. [ 1913 Webster ]

Midden

n. [ Also midding. ] [ Cf. Dan. mögdynge, E. muck, and dung. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A dunghill. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Midden crow

(Zool.) The common European crow. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Muckmidden

n. A dunghill. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

German-English: TU-Chemnitz DING DictionaryDING DE-EN Dictionary

Misthaufen { m }; Müllgrube { f }

midden[Add to Longdo]

Muschelhaufen { m }

shell midden[Add to Longdo]

Middendorffschwirl { m } [ ornith. ]

Middendorff's Grasshopper Warbler[Add to Longdo]

Middendorfflaubsänger { m } [ ornith. ]

Two-barred Greenish Warbler[Add to Longdo]

Japanese-English: EDICT DictionaryEDICT JP-EN Dictionary

貝塚

[かいづか;かいずか(ik), kaiduka ; kaizuka (ik)](n) shell heap; shell mound; kitchen midden#7580[Add to Longdo]

アラスカ羆

[アラスカひぐま;アラスカヒグマ, arasuka higuma ; arasukahiguma](n) (uk) Kodiak bear (Ursus arctos middendorffi); Alaskan brown bear[Add to Longdo]

コディアック羆

[コディアックひぐま;コディアックヒグマ, kodeiakku higuma ; kodeiakkuhiguma](n) (uk) (See 羆) Kodiak bear (Ursus arctos middendorfii)[Add to Longdo]

蝦夷貝

[えぞばい;エゾバイ, ezobai ; ezobai](n) (uk) Middendorf's whelk (Buccinum middendorffi)[Add to Longdo]

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