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feculas

feculas is the plural 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...

Questions about feculas

What is feculas the plural of?
Feculas is the plural of fecula.

Words near feculas in the dictionary

  1. FECs
  2. Fecteau
  3. Fecteaus
  4. fecula
  5. feculae
  6. feculas
  7. feculence
  8. feculences
  9. feculencies
  10. feculency
  11. feculent

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