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Definition: Fecula |
FeculaNoun1. Excreta (especially of insects). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fecula" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1870. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Fecula means sediment. Starch is a fecula, being the sediment of flour steeped in water. (Latin, fæces, dregs.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Uncleanness | Hogwash; ditchwater, dishwater, bilgewater; rinsings, cheeseparings; sweepings; (useless refuse); offscourings, outscourings; off scum; caput mortuum, residuum, sprue, fecula, clinker, draff; scurf, scurfiness; exuviae, morphea; fur, furfur; dandruff, tartar. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Fecula |
| English words defined with "fecula": Faecula, FeculAe. (references) |
Expression using "fecula": amylaceous fecula. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
fecula | 7 |
de fecula maiz | 5 |
de fecula mandioca | 5 |
de fecula papa | 3 |
embutidos en fecula | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "fecula"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | stivelsesmel (starch flour). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | zetmeel (amylum, starch, starch flour). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tärkkelysjauho (starch flour). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | fécule. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Stärkemehl (cornflour, cornstarch, starch, starch flour, thickening agent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | άμυλον (starch flour). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | fecola (flour, starch flour). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eculafay fécula (Farina, starch, starch flour). (various references) feculã. (various references) fécula (carbohydrate, potato flour, starch, starch flour, starchy). (various references) stärkelse (starch, starch flour). (various references) fekül, tortu (crust, deposit, deposition, draff, dregs, faeces, feculence, foots, grounds, Lees, remainder, residual, residue, residuum, sediment, settlings, tailings), nişasta unu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "fecula": feculae. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "fecula" (pronounced 'Fec"u*la'): Acanthocephala, Acicula, Actinula, Ala, Algarovilla, Alula, Ametabola, Ampulla, Amygdala, Angola, Anopla, Aquila, Archencephala, Archiblastula, Areola, Armilla, Arolla, Artiodactyla, Auricula, Axilla, Baggala, Bandala, Banderilla, Barilla, bengola, Beteela, Blastula, Bulla, Cabala, Cabrilla, Caffila, Calcavella, Calendula, Calla, Camarilla, Campanula, Canella, Cannicula, Cannula, Capella, Capitula, Cappella, Carambola, Cedilla, Cella, Chinchilla, Chrysocolla, Cicala, Claribella, Coccinella. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-f-l-u" | |
-1 letter: fecal. | |
-2 letters: alec, alef, cafe, calf, caul, clef, clue, face, feal, flea, flue, fuel, lace, leaf, luce. | |
-3 letters: ace, ale, cel, cue, eau, ecu, elf, feu, flu, lac, lea, leu. | |
-4 letters: ae, al, ef, el, fa, la. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-f-l-u" | |
+1 letter: cageful, careful, faculae, feculae, felucca. | |
+2 letters: cagefuls, feluccas, fullface, furculae, graceful, peaceful. | |
+3 letters: affluence, affluency, calcifuge, carefully, chanceful, changeful, effectual, faculties, fascicule, flashcube, fluctuate, focusable, fullfaces, teacupful. | |
+4 letters: affluences, calcifuges, camouflage, carefuller, catafalque, fascicules, flashcubes, flatulence, flatulency, flocculate, fluctuated, fluctuates, foliaceous, gracefully, luciferase, peacefully, satchelful, superflack, teacupfuls, teacupsful, ultrafiche, ungraceful. | |
+5 letters: affluencies, calciferous, camouflaged, camouflages, carefullest, carefulness, catafalques, cauliflower, centrifugal, changefully, confabulate, disgraceful, effectually, facetiously, factualness, facultative, fasciculate, feudalistic, flatulences, flocculated, flocculates, fraudulence, gracefuller, ineffectual, lactiferous, luciferases, overcareful, peacefuller, prefectural, reproachful, satchelfuls, satchelsful, superficial, superflacks, tactfulness, ultrafiches, uncalcified, unclarified. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 65 63 75 6C 61 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. . -.-. ..- .-.. .- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01100101 01100011 01110101 01101100 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F e c u l a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0065 0063 0075 006C 0061 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)407169877867 |
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