Faeces

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of feces. Commonwealth, alt-of, alternative, plural, plural-normally

    "This paper reports on ingestion of soil by dairy cows using titanium analysis of faeces by the X-ray fluorescence technique, and gives the range of soil intakes of a year on both an individual and a herd basis."

  2. 2
    solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels wordnet

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bmboo-booboom-boomdejectionfaecal matterfecal matter

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"The animals' faeces could be found all over the ground."

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