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stercovorous

stercovorous adjective: dung-eating.

Adjective

stercovorous (not comparable)

  1. dung-eating

Origin of stercovorous

From Latin stercus (“dung”) + -vorous.

Questions about stercovorous

What does stercovorous mean?
Stercovorous means dung-eating.
What part of speech is stercovorous?
Stercovorous is an adjective.

Words near stercovorous in the dictionary

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

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