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biopile

noun

Etymology

From bio- + pile.

  1. derived from pīlum — “heavy javelin”
  2. inherited from *pīl✻
  3. inherited from pīl
  4. inherited from pile
  5. prefixed as biopile — “bio + pile”

Definitions

  1. A pile of excavated soil (somewhat like a compost heap), mixed with certain additives, as…

    A pile of excavated soil (somewhat like a compost heap), mixed with certain additives, as a means of bioremediation

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for biopile. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA