MECONIUM

meconium

(noun) thick dark green mucoid material that is the first feces of a newborn child

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

meconium (countable and uncountable, plural meconiums)

(medicine) A dark green mass, the contents of the fetal intestines during the later stages of mammalian gestation, that forms the first faeces of the newborn

(obsolete) opium

Anagrams

• encomium

Source: Wiktionary

Me*co"ni*um, n. Etym: [L., fr. Gr. (Med.) (a) Opium. [Obs.] (b) The contents of the fetal intestine; hence, first excrement.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition