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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Meconium  \Me*co"ni*um\,  n.  [L.,  fr  Gr  ?,  fr  ?  poppy.]  (Med.) 
  a  Opium.  [Obs.] 
  b  The  contents  of  the  fetal  intestine;  hence  first 
  excrement. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  meconium 
  n  :  thick  dark  green  mucoid  material  that  is  the  first  feces  of 
  a  newborn  child 




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