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- noun Plural form of
midden .
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From the article: Packrats, which look like brown squirrels with Dumbo ears, are skilled home builders, and their massive nests, known as middens, can last 10,000 to 20,000 years though they are not usually inhabited the entire time.
Archive 2006-11-01 2006
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From the article: Packrats, which look like brown squirrels with Dumbo ears, are skilled home builders, and their massive nests, known as middens, can last 10,000 to 20,000 years though they are not usually inhabited the entire time.
Packrat Middens 2006
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A world where oaths could be cast out with the chamberpots onto the middens was a world doomed to the rule of the likes of Count Syzambry and the Star Brothers.
Conan the Relentless Green, Roland 1992
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The south end of the lake, Mr. Zaborowski said, held one of the largest 'middens' (garbage dumps) for aboriginal villagers centuries ago.
MYKAWARTHA - Home 2010
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Woodrats also are known as packrats because they build yard-wide, 2-foot-tall "middens" using twigs, branches, pottery shards and other debris.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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Woodrats also are known as packrats because they build yard-wide, 2-foot-tall "middens" using twigs, branches, pottery shards and other debris.
GEN News Highlights 2009
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Woodrats also are known as packrats because they build yard-wide, 2-foot-tall "middens" using twigs, branches, pottery shards and other debris.
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In like manner the eatable cockle, mussel, and periwinkle (Cardium edule, Mytilus edulis, and Littorina littorea), which are met with in great numbers in the "middens," are of the ordinary dimensions which they acquire in the ocean, whereas the same species now living in the adjoining parts of the Baltic only attain a third of their natural size, being stunted and dwarfed in their growth by the quantity of fresh water poured by rivers into that inland sea.
The Antiquity of Man Charles Lyell 1836
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I often saw their middens in the forest, huge heaps of discarded seed husks.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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I often saw their middens in the forest, huge heaps of discarded seed husks.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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