stercoraryadj.n.
/ˈstəːkərəri/ A. adj.
Of or pertaining to dung. Of insects: Living in or feeding on dung.
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the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > faeces > [adjective]
stercorous1542
excremental1574
excrementitious1586
faecical1594
excrementous1600
turdyc1600
ordurous?1606
merdurinous1616
excrementious1636
stercorarious1656
stercorean1656
stercoreous1659
stercorary1664
stercorose1727
stercoraceous1731
stercoral1739
excremential1847
excrementitial1857
excretal1864
excretitiousc1865
excretory1878
fimetic1880
pooey1967
the world > animals > animal body > general parts > substance or secretion and excretion > [adjective] > relating to dung
formy1575
stercorary1664
waste1836
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > [adjective] > feeding on or living in dung
stercorary1664
stercovorous1839
1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 6 The Stercorary or Yellow Flyes that feed upon Cow-dung.
1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 78 Innate and connatural to the place like the stercorary ferment to the cæcum.
1765 Universal Mag. 37 130/1 The stercorary beetle is seen at fig. 5.
1864 D. G. Mitchell Wet Days at Edgewood 17 (Cent.).
1869 tr. V. Hugo Man who Laughs in Appletons' Jrnl. 1 May 129/1 The stercorary tribe, which, like the envious, are addicted to defiling high places.
B. n.
A place where manure is stored, a dungheap. Now rare or Obsolete.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirty place > [noun] > dunghill
mixenOE
dung heap?a1300
miskinc1300
muckhilla1325
dunghillc1330
muck-heapa1400
middena1425
modyngstretea1500
dung mixenc1500
laystowa1513
mixhill1552
muck midden1552
laystall1553
middenstead1583
layheap1624
dung pile1658
midden lair1692
thurrock1708
stercorary1759
midden stance1844
1759 J. Mills tr. H. L. Duhamel du Monceau Pract. Treat. Husbandry i. viii. 29 Mud, or the product of your stercorary.
1792 G. Washington Let. 14 Oct. in Writings (1891) XII. 239 That lately sown in Lucern from the stercorary to the river fence.
1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Stercorary, a place properly secured from the weather for containing dung.
1851 Rural Cycl. IV. 338 Stercorary, a collection of putrescent manure in a position of security from injury by the weather.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2018).
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