a. [f. L. stercorāri-us (see STERCORARY) + -OUS.]

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  1.  = STERCORACEOUS 1.

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1656.  Blount, Glossogr., Stercorean or Stercorarious.

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1752.  Stack, in Phil. Trans., XLVII. 344. Without the least mixture of a stercorarious stench.

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1785.  Cowper, Task, III. 463. The stable yields a stercorarious [ed. 3, 1787 stercoraceous] heap.

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1816.  Kirby & Sp., Entomol., xxi. (ed. 2), II. 261. They can elevate or drop their stercorarious parasol so as most effectually to shelter or shade them.

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  2.  Ent. Of beetles, etc.: Living in dung.

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1826.  Kirby & Sp., Entomol., xliv. IV. 227. They … may often be seen … prowling in search of the stercorarious beetles.

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