Meanings
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adj
feeding on dung, especially as an insect or other small animal
Stercovorous beetles buried portions of the fresh dung beneath the soil.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
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adj
· feeding on dung, especially...
dung-eatingcoprophagousscatophagous
Word family
Related forms
dung beetledetritivorecoprophagy
Etymology
Formed from Latin stercus, genitive stercoris, 'dung,' + -vorous, 'eating,' from Latin vorare, 'to devour.' Nineteenth-century naturalists used it chiefly of dung-feeding insects.