fecula
/ˈfɛkjʊlə/
fecula noun: starchy sediment extracted from plants, especially those which are used as food.
Noun
fecula (countable and uncountable, plural feculas or feculae)
- 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 fecula
| plural | feculas |
|---|---|
| plural | feculae |
| alternative form | fæcula |
| alternative form | faecula |
Origin of fecula
From Latin faecula, diminutive of faex (“residue, dregs”).
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Questions about fecula
- What does fecula mean?
- Fecula means starchy sediment extracted from plants, especially those which are used as food.
- What part of speech is fecula?
- Fecula is a noun.
- How do you pronounce fecula?
- Fecula is pronounced /ˈfɛkjʊlə/.
- What is the plural of fecula?
- The plural of fecula is feculas.
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