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stercorous

stercorous adjective: fecal; manurelike.

Adjective

stercorous (not comparable)

  1. fecal; manurelike

Origin of stercorous

From Latin stercus (“feces”).

Questions about stercorous

What does stercorous mean?
Stercorous means fecal; manurelike.
What part of speech is stercorous?
Stercorous is an adjective.

Words near stercorous in the dictionary

  1. stercorin
  2. stercorite
  3. stercoroma
  4. stercoromas
  5. stercoromata
  6. stercorous
  7. stercory
  8. stercovorous
  9. sterculate
  10. sterculates
  11. sterculia

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