feces
/ˈfiːsiːz/
feces noun: digested waste material (typically solid or semi-solid) discharged from a human or other mammal's stomach to the intestines.
Noun
feces pl (plural only)
- Digested waste material (typically solid or semi-solid) discharged from a human or other mammal's stomach to the intestines.
- We are also extracting DNA, both from blood collected during immobilizations and from hyena feces.2011 June 21, Kay E. Holekamp, “Why Study Hyenas?”, in The New York Times
- Synonyms:
- excrement, shit, boo-boo, boom-boom, BM, bowel movement, caca, cack, chocolate, chocolate hot dog
feces meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
feces in Hindi
- digested waste material discharged from the bowels
- टट्टी ṭaṭṭī, मल mal, गू gū, गूह gūh, गुह guh, लीद līd
feces in Tamil
- digested waste material discharged from the bowels
- ஆய் āy, மலம் malam, கழிவு kaḻivu, பீ pī
feces in Marathi
- feces, excreta
- मल mal, विष्ठा viṣṭhā
feces in Urdu
- digested waste material discharged from the bowels
- باٹھروم bāṭhrūm, پا خانہ pā xānā, پاخانہ pāxāna
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- feces in Bengali
- টাট্টী ṭaṭṭi
- feces in Malayalam
- മലം malaṁ, തീട്ടം tīṭṭaṁ, കാട്ടം kāṭṭaṁ
- feces in Kannada
- ಪೀ pī
- feces in Gujarati
- છી chī, ગૂ gū, હંગણ haṅgaṇ
- feces in Sanskrit
- गूथ gūtha
- feces in Assamese
- হগা hoga, গু gu, পাইখেনা paikhena, শৌচ xous
- feces in Pashto
- سوپه súpa
- feces in Tagalog
- tae, dumi
- feces in Arabic
- بِرَاز birāz, سَلْح salḥ, زِبْل zibl, رَوْث rawṯ
- feces in Malay
- tinja
- feces in Indonesian
- tinja, tai
- feces in Persian
- گه goh, ان an, پهن pehen, مدفوع madfu'
- feces in Thai
- อาจม aa-jom, อุจจาระ ùt-jaa-rá, ขี้ kîi
- feces in Vietnamese
- cứt, phân
- feces in Myanmar
- ချေး hkye:, မစင် ma.cang, အလေး a.le:
Examples of feces in a sentence
- Larvated eggs are passed in the feces and are ingested by fly larvae intermediate hosts.
- Only rarely do we find a brainworm-infected moose that has larvae in its feces.
- To the small child, feces and urine done in the diaper are warm and moist also.
Synonyms of feces
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Forms of feces
| alternative Commonwealth | faeces |
|---|---|
| alternative form (dated) | fæces |
Origin of feces
From Latin faecēs, nominative plural of faex (“residue, dregs”), further origin unknown; possibly borrowed from a substrate language.
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Questions about feces
- What does feces mean?
- Feces means digested waste material (typically solid or semi-solid) discharged from a human or other mammal's stomach to the intestines.
- What is feces in Hindi?
- Feces in Hindi is टट्टी (ṭaṭṭī), मल (mal), गू (gū). See Feces meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is feces?
- Feces is a noun.
- How do you pronounce feces?
- Feces is pronounced /ˈfiːsiːz/.
Words near feces in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: feces (page history and authors); मल (Marathi) (page history and authors); ಪೀ (Kannada) (page history and authors). 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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