1. Rubbish carelessly dropped or left about (especially in public places)
   "Volunteers collected litter from the beach"
    
2. The offspring at one birth of a multiparous mammal
   "The cat gave birth to a litter of six kittens"
    
3. Conveyance consisting of a chair or bed carried on two poles by bearers
   "The injured explorer was transported through the jungle on a litter"
    
4. Material used to provide a bed for animals
   "The farmer spread fresh straw as litter in the horse stalls";
   - bedding material, bedding

1. Make a place messy by strewing garbage around
   "Careless tourists littered the beach with plastic bottles"
    
2. Give birth to a litter of animals
   "The sow littered a dozen piglets"
    
3. Cover; be dispersed over
   "papers littered his desk";
   - strew

Derived forms: litters, littering, littered

Type of: animal group, bear, birth, conveyance, cover, deliver, garbage, give birth, have, junk [informal], material, refuse, rubbish, scrap, spread over, straw [archaic], strew, stuff, transport, trash

Encyclopedia: Litter, Pulwama district