"night soil" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1977, Hillel I. Shuval, Water Renovation and Reuse",
          "text": "There, the night soil along with the community refuse is filled in trenches for composting and subsequent use in agriculture.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Mario Giampietro et al., “Can Biofuels replace Fossil Energy Fuels?”, in International Journal of Transdisciplinary Research, volume 1, number 1, page 58",
          "text": "The flow of nitrogen from night-soil in rural China is valuable, whereas human excrement in an urban center is a pollution problem.",
          "type": "quotation"
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        {
          "ref": "2017, Jennifer Taylor, Echoes of the Moon",
          "text": "Time for the local night soil man to appear. He left the inn to find the night man who serviced the place.",
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      "glosses": [
        "Human faeces."
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          "faeces",
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        "(archaic, euphemistic) Human faeces."
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        {
          "word": "night-soil"
        },
        {
          "word": "nightsoil"
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        "archaic",
        "euphemistic",
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      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "yue",
          "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
          "roman": "je⁶ hoeng¹",
          "sense": "human faeces",
          "word": "夜香"
        },
        {
          "code": "yue",
          "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
          "sense": "human faeces",
          "word": "夜來香"
        },
        {
          "code": "yue",
          "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
          "roman": "je⁶ loi⁴ hoeng¹",
          "sense": "human faeces",
          "word": "夜来香"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "human faeces",
          "word": "糞便"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "fènbiàn",
          "sense": "human faeces",
          "word": "粪便"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "human faeces",
          "word": "uloste"
        },
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          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "nočnóje zóloto",
          "sense": "human faeces",
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            "neuter"
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          "word": "ночно́е зо́лото"
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        "night soil"
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1977, Hillel I. Shuval, Water Renovation and Reuse",
          "text": "There, the night soil along with the community refuse is filled in trenches for composting and subsequent use in agriculture.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Mario Giampietro et al., “Can Biofuels replace Fossil Energy Fuels?”, in International Journal of Transdisciplinary Research, volume 1, number 1, page 58",
          "text": "The flow of nitrogen from night-soil in rural China is valuable, whereas human excrement in an urban center is a pollution problem.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "text": "Time for the local night soil man to appear. He left the inn to find the night man who serviced the place.",
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        "Human faeces."
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        "(archaic, euphemistic) Human faeces."
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "night-soil"
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  "translations": [
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      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "roman": "je⁶ hoeng¹",
      "sense": "human faeces",
      "word": "夜香"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "sense": "human faeces",
      "word": "夜來香"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "roman": "je⁶ loi⁴ hoeng¹",
      "sense": "human faeces",
      "word": "夜来香"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "human faeces",
      "word": "糞便"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "fènbiàn",
      "sense": "human faeces",
      "word": "粪便"
    },
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      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "human faeces",
      "word": "uloste"
    },
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      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "nočnóje zóloto",
      "sense": "human faeces",
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      "word": "ночно́е зо́лото"
    }
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  "word": "night soil"
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