English
Etymology
From Greek, skat-, skOrexcrement. Later in Old English scearndung, and Latin muscerdae =mouse droppings
Adjective
en-adj
- (a formal word) related to the research area of scatology, the particulate study of biological excrement, feces or dung.
#* The scientist could read the dinosaur dung to see what it had eaten. He was an expert in scatological studies, called scatology.
- an interest in obscenity or things considered obscene, particularly literature
#* His interest in scatological reading gained him very few friends.
Related terms
scat
scatology
scatologist
Translations
Dutch: scatologisch
French: scatologique
Category:Biology
vi:scatological
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