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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of, relating to, or composed of feces.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to feces; containing or consisting of dregs, lees, sediment, or excrement.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Relating to, or containing, dregs, feces, or ordure; fæcal.

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  • adjective Of or relating to feces.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of or relating to feces

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Examples

  • You know, so you can eat fruits and veggies covered in fecal matter.

    Think Progress » Frist and Hastert Let Vaccine Industry Write Its Own Multi-Billion Dollar Giveaway 2006

  • In Mexico, many of the crops are irrigated with unclean water which contain fecal matter, so soaking all fruits and vegetables in iodine becomes standard procedure.

    Magnificent Mexican Papaya 2006

  • In Mexico, many of the crops are irrigated with unclean water which contain fecal matter, so soaking all fruits and vegetables in iodine becomes standard procedure.

    Magnificent Mexican Papaya 2006

  • —through what is called fecal energy excretion fiber flush effect.

    The Fiber35 Diet Brenda Watson with Leonard Smith 2007

  • —through what is called fecal energy excretion fiber flush effect.

    The Fiber35 Diet Brenda Watson with Leonard Smith 2007

  • Better yet perhaps, her abilities are more accurate than some tests currently used to diagnose the cancer, namely the fecal occult blood test, which accurately predicts the cancer only 10 percent of the time.

    Dog Sniffs Out Cancer The Huffington Post 2011

  • Better yet perhaps, her abilities are more accurate than some tests currently used to diagnose the cancer, namely the fecal occult blood test, which accurately predicts the cancer only 10 percent of the time.

    Dog Sniffs Out Cancer The Huffington Post 2011

  • Better yet perhaps, her abilities are more accurate than some tests currently used to diagnose the cancer, namely the fecal occult blood test, which accurately predicts the cancer only 10 percent of the time.

    Dog Sniffs Out Cancer The Huffington Post 2011

  • The final residue, now called fecal matter, is squeezed along the length of the large intestines and passes out the rectum.

    How and When to Be Your Own Doctor Isabel Moser

  • Researchers compared those findings to the rate of a colorectal cancer screening method called fecal occult blood testing.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

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