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feculent

[fek-yuh-luhnt] / ˈfɛk yə lənt /






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The problems created by that many birds, fresh back from a day of feeding, is feculent.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 8, 2018

It is wrapped up in the beggar's raiment, which unroll in our mills into paper—yesterday, a beggar's feculent rags; to-day, a newspaper, conveying the world's daily life into twenty thousand families.

From Conflict of Northern and Southern Theories of Man and Society Great Speech, Delivered in New York City by Beecher, Henry Ward

Home Rule not only, like pumpkins and vegetable marrows, requires a feculent soil, but like them, and indeed like all watery and vaporous vegetables, it needs the forcing-frame.

From Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule by Buckley, Robert John

If they do not operate appreciably in changing the general character of the feculent mass, at least they rescue from it many who in the great day of account will call their authors blessed.

From Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

The Saguerus Rumphii, or Metroxylon Sagus, which is found in the Eastern Islands of the Indian Ocean, yields a feculent matter.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by Simmonds, P. L.