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feculent

[fek-yuh-luhnt] / ˈfɛk jə 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

The leaves are dried in the sun, and at the first exposure, after having been plucked from the vine which produces them, they show the abundant feculent substance which they contain.

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 P. L. Simmonds

On account of the present nauseating condition of New York Bay, owing to the offal nuisance, no prudent voyager should seek to stem its feculent tide unless provided with "something to take."

From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 24, September 10, 1870 by Various

Brann wrote to catch the wide world's attention that he might teach them gentler things than feculent shocks.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 by William Cowper Brann

By this and similar conversations I elucidate a theory I have formed about the human race, viz: Greasy corpulence always has, as its first cause, a diet with too much farinacious or feculent substance.

From The Physiology of Taste by Fayette Robinson




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