feces

 

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feces

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human feces

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• faeces (British)
• fæces (archaic)

From Latin faecēs, nominative plural of faex (“residue, dregs”), further origin unknown; possibly borrowed from a substrate language.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfiːsiːz/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -iːsiːz

feces pl (plural only) (Canada, US)

1. Digested waste material (typically solid or semi-solid) discharged from a human or other mammal's stomach to the intestines; excrement.
   • 2011 June 21, Kay E. Holekamp, “Why Study Hyenas?”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     We are also extracting DNA, both from blood collected during immobilizations and from hyena feces.

• This word can be used with plural verbs ("feces have a strong smell") or singular ones ("feces has a strong smell"). Use with plural verbs is more common, especially in Britain, and is the only use recognized by some dictionaries,^[1] while others recognize both plural and singular use.^[2]
• A singular form faex is rarely used, in some academic contexts, particularly when the spelling faeces is used for the plural.

• (discharged animal waste): dung, excrement, droppings, faecal matter, caca, spoor
• (discharged domestic animal waste): manure
• (discharged bird or bat waste): guano
• night soil, number two (euphemistic)
• doo, poo, poop, boo-boo, doo-doo, dookie and doody (euphemistic or hypocoristic)
• crap, shit, turd, log (vulgar)
• See also Thesaurus:feces

fēcēs

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of fēx

feces m pl

1. plural of fez