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fecal

/ˈfiːkəl/

fecal adjective: of or relating to feces.

Adjective

fecal (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to feces.
    • Differential biochemical or physiological characteristics which correlate with aerogenesis at elevated incubation temperatures will be adapted towards a fecal coliform procedure and towards converting a total coliform procedure under development to give a fecal coliform count as well.1973, Water Resources Research Catalog - Volume 8, Issue 1, page 732
    • Beaches from Crystal River, Florida, to Ogunquit, Maine, have been under advisories warning about water quality this week because of elevated levels of bacteria associated with fecal waste.2025 August 30, “US beaches warn about water quality due to unsafe levels of fecal contamination this Labor Day weekend”, in CNN, sourced from Associated Press
    Synonyms:
    stercoraceous

fecal meaning in Tamil, Gujarati and Nepali

fecal in Tamil

மல, மலத்தின்

fecal in Gujarati

ફેકલ

fecal in Nepali

फेकल

Examples of fecal in a sentence

  • Minor incontinence (fecal soilage) includes incontinence to flatus and occasional seepage of liquid stool.
  • The fecal deposits they leave on the underside of leaves are usually noticed long before the thrip itself.
  • Some cross-reactivity occurred when bovine coronavirus was present in the fecal specimens and required blocking with bovine anticoronavirus serum.

All 11 example sentences with fecal

Synonyms of fecal

Forms of fecal

alternative Commonwealthfaecal
alternative form (dated)fæcal

Origin of fecal

From Middle French fecal, from Latin faex, equivalent to feces + -al.

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Phrases with fecal

Words that rhyme with fecal

Questions about fecal

What does fecal mean?
Fecal means of or relating to feces.
What is fecal in Tamil?
Fecal in Tamil is மல, மலத்தின். See Fecal meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is fecal?
Fecal is an adjective.
How do you pronounce fecal?
Fecal is pronounced /ˈfiːkəl/.

Words near fecal in the dictionary

  1. febuprol
  2. Feburary
  3. febuxostat
  4. Feby.
  5. FEC
  6. fecal
  7. fecal impaction
  8. fecal impactions
  9. fecal matter
  10. fecal microbiota transplant
  11. fecal microbiota transplantation

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: fecal (page history and authors); fecal (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fecal (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fecal (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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