Dead plant material, such as fallen leaves, bark, and twigs, that has fallen to the ground and may be used by animals as habitat or for nest-building, eventually decomposing and releasing nutrients into the soil.
Layer of fallen leaves and similar organic matter in a forest floor.
Material used as bedding for animals.
A platform mounted on two shafts, or a more elaborate construction, designed to be carried by two (or more) people to transport one (in luxury models sometimes more) third person(s) or (occasionally in the elaborate version) a cargo, such as a religious idol.
Collectively, items discarded on the ground.
A covering of straw for plants.
Absorbent material used in an animal's litter tray
The offspring of a mammal born in one birth.
To drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles).
To give birth to, used of animals.
To strew (a place) with scattered articles.
To supply (cattle etc.) with litter; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.
To scatter carelessly about.
To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.
To produce a litter of young.