stercoraceous

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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_.

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  1. adjective Consisting of or relating to excrement.

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  1. Latin stercus, stercor-, dung; see sker-3 in Indo-European roots + -aceous.

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  1. from Latin stercus (-or-), dung, + -aceous.
 

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/stərkəˈreɪʃɪəs/
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