Wiktionary
coprophilous
a. Living in, or growing on excrement
Usage examples of "coprophilous".
He also didn’t know that the smears contained spores from the coprophilous fungus living in the intestine of the cow that had produced the dung.
Each particle contained Jane Wilson’s still-active enzyme, and when one of them came into contact with a coprophilous spore, something began to happen.
The mutating coprophilous was making the necessary changes to its hosts so that it could exist in a symbiotic relationship with them without causing their destruction.