feculent
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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
Within the last three or four years, considerable quantities of a feculent substance, called Tous les mois, have been imported from the West Indies.
We longed impatiently to take a bath, but we found only a great pool of feculent water, surrounded with palm-trees.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Humboldt, Alexander von
The Saguerus Rumphii, or Metroxylon Sagus, which is found in the Eastern Islands of the Indian Ocean, yields a feculent matter.
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
