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Spell Bee Word: Manure


What does manure mean?

Word: Manure

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Manure means animal droppings, often mixed with straw, that farmers spread on fields to make plants grow better.

How do you spell manure?

Syllables: ma - nure

Tricky part: The u says 'yoo', so some pupils slip a y in before it, but there is no y in the word.

Watch out for: manyure, mannure

Memory tip: One heap, one n: picture a single neat heap of manure in the middle of the field.

Manure in a sentence

Example 1: The farmer spread manure on his wheat field.

Example 2: Our school garden uses manure from the dairy farm nearby.

Example 3: Fresh manure smells strong, but plants love it.

Fun Fact

Manure was first a verb meaning to work the land by hand. It comes from the same old French word as manoeuvre.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) pestiside
b) irigation
c) fertilisar
d) manure

Show answer

d) manure. Pesticide is pest + cide, so its middle sound is spelt with a c, not an s.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

reunam

a) manure
b) maunre
c) manrue
d) mnaure

Show answer

a) manure. Ma comes first; then the u says yoo before the r and the silent e.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Grandpa mixed cow manuer into the soil of his garden.

a) manuer
b) mixed
c) garden
d) soil

Show answer

a) manuer. The word ends in u-r-e, not u-e-r.

Word Connection

Choose the synonym of the word:

manure

a) seed
b) clay
c) dung
d) sand

Show answer

c) dung. Manure is mostly dung from cows and other farm animals.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do farmers put manure on their fields?

a) to help crops grow
b) to keep insects away
c) to keep the soil dry
d) to kill the weeds

Show answer

a) to help crops grow

2. Like manure, ____ is spread on soil to feed plants.

a) salt
b) plastic
c) gravel
d) compost

Show answer

d) compost

Associated Words

Words that end in -ure: failure, gesture, adventure, capture, structure, feature

More words from this list

plenty, shrink, twilight, appointment, cargo, damage, fantastic, honesty

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