coprolith meaning
Noun: coprolith
- A hard mass of faecal matter
- fecalith [N. Amer], faecalith [Brit, Cdn], stercolith
Derived forms: coproliths
Type of: mass
Encyclopedia: Coprolith
[Medicine]
n : a mass of hard fecal matter in the intestine
Examples
- Analysis of these coproliths have found that ground sloths often ate the foliage of trees, hard grasses, shrubs, and yucca; these plants were located in areas that exposed them.
