FECAL MATTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fecal matter mean? 

• FECAL MATTER (noun)
  The noun FECAL MATTER has 1 sense:

1. solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels

  Familiarity information: FECAL MATTER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FECAL MATTER (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 ("fecal 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 "fecal 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 

Docusate decreases surface tension and emulsification of fecal matter and allows water to penetrate and mix with stool.

(Docusate Calcium, NCI Thesaurus)

A. faecalis is found in soil, water, and fecal matter and is an opportunistic pathogen in humans.

(Alcaligenes faecalis, NCI Thesaurus)

The researchers reported inventing a coating good at resisting substances that are sticky and vary profoundly in viscosity across their mass—like human fecal matter.

(Materials scientists invent new coating for self-cleaning, water-efficient toilets, Wikinews)

They feed on human blood, and they lay their eggs and deposit their fecal matter on the skin (they may also lay their eggs in clothing).

(Human Body Louse, NCI Thesaurus)