cololite

cololite
 n.β€” Β«There’s also fossil vomit.…I’ve coined those regurgitalites. And sometimes digested food stays in the intestines when an animal dies, and we call those cololites. Those two and coprolites make up the larger field of bromalites.Β» β€”β€œExpert doesn’t see work as waste” by Sue Vorenberg Scripps Howard Nov. 27, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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