Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to feces; stercoraceous.
- noun Dung; excrement.
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Examples
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It loses the grey color and acidity it previously possessed, becomes yellow and commences to assume a stercoral odor, which increases as it advances to the rectum.
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In Tome xv. of the Commentaries of Leipzig there is an account of a man who always had his stercoral evacuations on Wednesdays, and who suffered no evil consequences from this abnormality.
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A cure was effected in this case by tonics, temperance, regulation of the diet, etc. In Tome xv of the Commentaries of Leipzig there is an account of a man who always had his stercoral evacuations on Wednesdays, and who suffered no evil consequences from this abnormality.
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Invariably clad in a garment that is an exact fit, neither too loose nor too tight, the grub, when the cold weather comes, closes the mouth of its earthenware jar with a lid of the same mixed compound, a paste of earth and stercoral cement.
The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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There is no need to return to this stercoral mechanism after the master has done with it.
The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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Remembering the Onites, who are very similar in shape and who manipulate stercoral matter, he would look upon the foreigner as another manipulator of dung.
The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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The stercoral intestine has more substance; its outlines are better defined.
The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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A similar jumble of more or less everything found near the nest forms, as we know, the barricade of the Manicate Cotton-bee, who is also an adept at using the Snail's stercoral droppings after these have been dried in the sun.
Bramble-Bees and Others Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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Made of horny matter or stercoral paste, the shell of the Clythra and the
The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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Her grub, let us suppose, once conceived the notion, when tormented by the Tachina, of making the stercoral slit open above.
The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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