different between stercorous vs stercoraceous

English

From Latin stercus (“feces”).

stercorous (not comparable)

From Latin stercor?ceus, from stercus (“dung”).

stercoraceous (comparative more stercoraceous, superlative most stercoraceous)

Consisting of, resembling or pertaining to feces.
- 1771, Tobias Smollett, Humphry Clinker, Penguin Classics, 1985, p.46:
  He had reason to believe the stercoraceous flavour, condemned by prejudice as a stink, was, in fact, most agreeable to the organs of smelling.
- 1988, Peter Wagner, Eros Rising, Paladin 1990, p. 182:
  [W]e find it hard today to see the entertaining aspects of, for instance, stercoraceous jokes.

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