faex

Noun

1. singular of faeces
   • In some cases he has identified the plant parasites also in the intestine of insects (Hemiptera and Muscidae) living on the plants and presumably distributing infection either by bite or by faex.[…]It gives a concise...
   • The colour of the faeces presumably depends on that of the sand on which the worm happens to be feeding. It would be difficult to explain the following laboratory observation in any other way. A worm, which was setting...
   • I, the last of the Ducases, I, the strider across millennia, I, the brilliant Courier in the style of Metaxes, I … I, to these veteran Couriers here, was simply an upright mass of perambulating dreck. A faex that walks...