stercoraceous

American  

[stur-kuh-rey-shuhs] / ˌstɜr kəˈreɪ ʃəs /

Also stercorous

adjective

Physiology.

1. consisting of, resembling, or pertaining to dung or feces.

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stercoraceous British  

/ ˌstɜːkəˈreɪʃəs /

adjective

1. of, relating to, or consisting of dung or excrement

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Etymology

Origin of stercoraceous

1725–35; < Latin stercor- (stem of stercus ) dung + -aceous

Example Sentences

Robson reports a case of strangulated hernia in the third month of pregnancy with stercoraceous vomiting.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

Wordsworth would never have spoken of "embellished Nature," "embroidered banks," or applied the word "elegant" to a rose, any more than he would have used "lubricity" or "stercoraceous" in verse.

From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science by Various

Of gardening he had always been fond; and he understood it as shown by the loving though somewhat "stercoraceous" minuteness of some passages in The Task.

From Cowper by Smith, Goldwin

Relief was prompt, and the removal of the foreign body was followed by the issue of stercoraceous matter which had accumulated the six days it had remained in situ.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

But the dwarf undertaker does not on that account scorn stercoraceous fare: he feasts upon it like the other Onthophagi.

From The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander