Of gardening he had always been fond; and he understood it as shown by the loving though somewhat "Stercoraceous" minuteness of some passages in The Task.
"Cowper"
Goldwin Smith
But the dwarf undertaker does not on that account scorn Stercoraceous fare: he feasts upon it like the other Onthophagi.
"The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles"
Jean Henri Fabre