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fæcula

fæcula is the obsolete spelling of fecula.

Meaning of fecula

Noun

fecula (countable and uncountable, plural feculas or feculae)

  1. Starchy sediment extracted from plants, especially those which are used as food.
    • Arrowroot is the fecula of Maran′ta arundina′cea or West Indian arrowroot; Sex. Syst. Monandria Monogynia; Nat. Ord. Marantaceæ; a plant, which is a native of South America and the West Indies, where it is largely cultivated in gardens and provision grounds. The tubers or roots are beaten into a...1843, Robley Dunglison, “Demulcents”, in General Therapeutics and Materia Medica, Adapted for a Medical Text Book. … In Two Volumes, volume II, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lea and Blanchard, →OCLC, section...

Forms of fæcula

pluralfæculæ

Questions about fæcula

What is fæcula the obsolete spelling of?
Fæcula is the obsolete spelling of fecula.

Words near fæcula in the dictionary

  1. fæcally
  2. fæcaloid
  3. fæces
  4. fæcolith
  5. fæcoliths
  6. fæcula
  7. fæculence
  8. fæculent
  9. fæculæ
  10. fæder
  11. fæders

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