faecal matter

Questions about faecal matter

What does faecal matter mean?

faecal matter means "solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels".

What is another word for faecal matter?

Close synonyms include fecal matter, feces, faeces, BM, stool. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is faecal matter a common word?

faecal matter is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.