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  • noun biology In certain mammals, especially rabbits and some rodents, a cake or pellet of food which is produced by means of digestion and expulsion through the anus.

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  • Wiktionary: "a cake or pellet of food which is produced by means of digestion and expulsion through the anus." Richard Adams' book Watership Down calls it hraka.

    March 23, 2011

  • A tasty food pellet? Where?

    Oh. Never mind.

    March 23, 2011

  • Fox calls it 'news'.

    March 24, 2011