stercoraceousadj.
/stəːkəˈreɪʃəs/ 1. figurative.1832 Westm. Rev. 17 522 A sneaking stercoraceous policy.
a. Consisting of, containing, or pertaining to fæces.
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the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > faeces > [adjective]
stercorous1542
excremental1574
excrementitious1586
faecical1594
excrementous1600
turdyc1600
ordurous?1606
merdurinous1616
excrementious1636
stercorarious1656
stercorean1656
stercoreous1659
stercorary1664
stercorose1727
stercoraceous1731
stercoral1739
excremential1847
excrementitial1857
excretal1864
excretitiousc1865
excretory1878
fimetic1880
pooey1967
1731 J. Arbuthnot Ess. Nature Aliments i. 5 A putrid stercoraceous Taste and Odour.
1759 J. Mills tr. H. L. Duhamel du Monceau Pract. Treat. Husbandry i. viii. 19 The stercoraceous salts of the dung.
1785 W. Cowper Task iii. 463 The stable yields a stercorarious [1787 (ed. 3) stercoraceous] heap.
1834 Rep. Sel. Comm. Metrop. Sewers 115 Pumping of stercoraceous filth is practised sometimes every night.
1876 J. S. Bristowe Treat. Theory & Pract. Med. ii. v. 652 This discharge of ‘stercoraceous’ matter by the mouth is due..to the fact that [etc.].
b. Pathology. Of vomiting: Consisting of fæces, fæcal.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > [adjective] > relating to vomiting > types of vomiting
stercoraceous1754
1754–64 W. Smellie Treat. Midwifery III. 516 The Child had that night Stercoraceous vomitings.
1898 W. Rose & A. Carless Man. Surg. 931 This shock..is..followed by vomiting, at first gastric, then bilious, and finally stercoraceous or fæcal.
2. Entomology. Of certain beetles, flies, etc.: Frequenting or feeding on dung.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [adjective] > living or born in dung
shard-borna1616
shardeda1616
stercorarious1826
stercoricolous1885
stercoraceous1891
1891 Cent. Dict.
Derivatives
stercoˈraceously adv.
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the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > defecation or urination > defecation > [adverb]
by stool1541
stercoraceously1894
1894 J. M. Walsh Coffee 142 The appreciation of such stercoraceously deposited beans by the natives being an undoubted fact.
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