defaecator

English

Noun

defaecator (plural defaecators)

1. Alternative form of defecator
   • 1960, Jack Lindsay, The Writing on the Wall: An Account of Pompeii in Its Last Days:

     Even the most obdurate defaecator is a bit afraid of messing up a sacred place, and so the painters make the snakes as long as possible.

   • 1978, P. E. Lake, J. M. Stewart, Artificial insemination in poultry, →ISBN, page 11:

     Unless required as a valuable male, a persistent poor responder, urinator or defaecator observed during training should be discarded as such birds seldom improve.

   • 2012, Michael N. Bruton, Alternative Life-History Styles of Animals, →ISBN, page 268:

     These insects rely heavily on crypsis, and as the black faecal pellets on bright green leaves do indeed serve as conspicuous indications of the presence of the defaecator (students used as 'potential pneumorid predators' soon learnt to use these signs).

Latin

Verb

dēfaecātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of dēfaecō