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FAECAL MATTER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does faecal matter mean?
• FAECAL MATTER (noun)
The noun FAECAL MATTER has 1 sense:
1. solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels
Familiarity information: FAECAL MATTER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Synonyms:
BM; dejection; faecal matter; faeces; fecal matter; feces; ordure; stool
Hypernyms ("faecal matter" is a kind of...):
body waste; excrement; excreta; excretion; excretory product (waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "faecal matter"):
dog do; dog shit; dog turd; doggy do (fecal droppings from a dog)
crap; dirt; poop; shit; shite; turd (obscene terms for feces)
droppings; dung; muck (fecal matter of animals)
meconium (thick dark green mucoid material that is the first feces of a newborn child)
melaena; melena (abnormally dark tarry feces containing blood (usually from gastrointestinal bleeding))
Context examples
The system was also successful at killing off coliform bacteria and other pathogens in the water including faecal matter, E.coli and streptococci bacteria.
(Soil-based filter bricks clean up water for Moroccan farmers, SciDev.Net)
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