a. rare. [L. L. stercore-us (see prec.) + -OUS.] = STERCORACEOUS.
1659. H. More, Immort. Soul, II. ix. (1713), 99. A Receptacle of Stercoreous excrement.
1753. Dodsley, Agric., II. 70. From stercoreous fumes of rottenness and filth, can sweetness spring?
1862. Wraxall, trans. Hugo’s Les Misérables, V. xix. (1877), 12. The stercoreous trench of a great city.
