FAECES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does faeces mean? 

• FAECES (noun)
  The noun FAECES has 1 sense:

1. solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels

  Familiarity information: FAECES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAECES (noun)

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 ("faeces" 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 "faeces"):

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 

Glicetanile is both rapidly metabolized and eliminated via urine and faeces after oral and i.v. administration, thereby preventing adverse hypoglycemic effects.

(Glicetanile, NCI Thesaurus)

"The strains of resistant E. coli found in food, were almost entirely different from the types found in human faeces, sewage and bloodstream infections", said Dr. Livermore.

(Wash your hands or else spread superbug E. coli, say scientists, Wikinews)

The new studies suggest that people can become infected by consuming açaí when the insect vector, or its faeces, are accidentally mixed with the fruit while blending the juice.

(Açaí fruit can transmit Chagas disease, SciDev.Net)

Scientists assessed the strains of E. coli from infected humans and looked for the same strains in sewage, dairy farm slurry, human faeces, and contaminated foods including beef, pork, chicken, salad and fruit.

(Wash your hands or else spread superbug E. coli, say scientists, Wikinews)