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Feculence vs Faeces - What's the difference?

feculence | faeces |

As nouns the difference between feculence and faeces

is that feculence is the state of being feculent while faeces is .

feculence

English

Alternative forms

* (obsolete) * feculency

Noun

  • The state of being feculent.

    • faeces

    English

    Noun

    (en-plural noun)
  • * 1968 May, W. B. Healy, Ingestion of Soil by Dairy Cows'', ''New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research , page 487,
    • This paper reports on ingestion of soil by dairy cows using titanium analysis of faeces by the X-ray fluorescence technique, and gives the range of soil intakes of a year on both an individual and a herd basis.
  • * 1984 April 19, David F. Chantrey, James B. Reid, C. E. Davie, Dog Business'', '' , page 48,
    • The fact that dogs have a well developed sense of smell suggests that they might be able to use the odour of faeces as a means of communicating.
  • * 2004 , Håkan Jönsson, Håkan Jönsson, Anna Richert Stintzing, Björn Vinnerås, Eva Salomon, Guidelines on the Use of Urine and Faeces in Crop Production , page 1,
    • Urine and faeces' are complete fertilizers of high quality with low levels of contaminants such as heavy metals. Urine is rich in nitrogen, while ' faeces are rich in phosphorous, potassium and organic matter.
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