Feces
/ˈfiːsiːz/ noun
noun ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 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 solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels wordnet
Antonyms
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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.