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Feces

//ˈfiːsiːz// noun

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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

Etymology

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

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