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

Hot tea, turbid beer, and feculent liquors will have the same effect.

From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Eaton, Mary, fl. 1823-1849

Flowers of a fœtid or feculent odor, hermaphrodite, in compound racemes.

From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers

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

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