stercoraceous
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of stercoraceous
1725–35; < Latin stercor- (stem of stercus ) dung + -aceous
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Those hells are therefore named accordingly; some are called cadaverous, some stercoraceous, some urinous, and so on.
From Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom by John Ager
At times the horse laughter is even slightly flavored with the stercoraceous smell of the stable.
From Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Wiliam Cabell Bruce
Robson reports a case of strangulated hernia in the third month of pregnancy with stercoraceous vomiting.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
But the dwarf undertaker does not on that account scorn stercoraceous fare: he feasts upon it like the other Onthophagi.
From The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
The hat of Walter the Doubter falling on a stercoraceous heap of compost, in the rear of the house, began forthwith to vegetate.
From Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies by Washington Irving
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