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n. - A heap of dung or refuse; (archeology) a mound of domestic refuse containing shells and animal bones marking the site of a prehistoric settlement.

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  • Molecular analysis of a 11,700 year-old rodent midden from the Atacama Desert, Chile.
  • Packrats in Utah's Great Basin built and live in this "midden" beneath a juniper tree, their major if slightly toxic food source.
  • One does not return to the midden one was flung in.
  • They reminded him of rats seen near midden heaps by night.
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