meconium
Plural: meconiums
Noun
- The first fecal excretion of a newborn child.
- thick dark green mucoid material that is the first feces of a newborn child
- A dark green mass, the contents of the fetal intestines during the later stages of mammalian gestation, that forms the first feces of the newborn.
- Opium.
Examples
- My opponent played ’MECONIUM’, and I immediately wondered if it was truly a word.
Origin / Etymology
From Latin mēcōnium (“opium; excrement of a newborn child”), from Ancient Greek μηκώνιον (mēkṓnion, “poppy-juice, opium”), from μήκων (mḗkōn, “poppy”).
Synonyms
Chinese tobacco, God's medicine, aunti/aunti Emma, big O, chandu, dopium, dream gun, dream stick, fi-do-nie, gee, gondola, goric, guma, hop/hops, meconium, midnight oil, mud, ope, pen yan, pin gon, pox, skee, toxy, when-shee, yen, ze, zero
Scrabble Score: 14
meconium: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordmeconium: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
meconium: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary