noun ·Moderate ·High school level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Digested waste material (typically solid or semi-solid) discharged from a human or other mammal's stomach to the intestines; excrement. Canada, US, plural, plural-only

   "We are also extracting DNA, both from blood collected during immobilizations and from hyena feces."

2. 2
   solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

crapdejectionfaecal matterfaecesfecal matternight soil

Example

More examples

"We're born between urine and feces."

Etymology

From Latin faecēs, nominative plural of faex (“residue, dregs”), further origin unknown; possibly borrowed from a substrate language.

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