English

Adjective

manurial ‎(comparative more manurial, superlative most manurial)

1. Of or pertaining to manure.

   He wrinkled his nose at the manurial smell coming from the garden.

   • 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XXVI,

     I understood from Anscra that all the filth and refuse of the settlement—except a certain portion kept for manurial purposes, and sent to the plantation—was thrown into this torrent nightly and swept perhaps hundreds of miles away.

References

• manurial in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• “manurial”, in OED Online, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.