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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

In Algeria, a kind of kalo is cultivated under the name of chou caraibe, whose tubers are larger, but less feculent.

From Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands by Charles Nordhoff

Within the last three or four years, considerable quantities of a feculent substance, called Tous les mois, have been imported from the West Indies.

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

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 Henry Ward Beecher

Sensibility is smothered in, the feculent steams of roast beef, and delicacy stained by the waste drippings of porter.

From Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada by Henry A. Murray




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