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with Anu Garg

feculent

PRONUNCIATION:

(FEK-yuh-luhnt)

MEANING:

adjective: Full of filth or waste matter.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin faeculentus (full of dregs), from faeces, plural of faex (dregs).

USAGE:

"And there is the pool of trash sitting in the North Pacific -- a continent of plastic that will not decompose. Imagine if another species just shoveled feculent matter all over our home?"
Brittany De Avilan; Deny Warming If You Wish, But Pollution Is Real; The Bee (Sacramento, California); Dec 24, 2009.

See more usage examples of feculent in Vocabulary.com's dictionary.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

Literature is the language of society, as speech is the language of man. -Louis de Bonald, philosopher and politician (1754-1840)

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