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
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.
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