The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sordes \Sor"des\, n. [L., fr. sordere to be dirty or foul.] Foul matter; excretion; dregs; filthy, useless, or rejected matter of any kind; specifically (Med.), the foul matter that collects on the teeth and tongue in low fevers and other conditions attended with great vital depression.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. Deposits of dirt or bacteria on the body, discharges; bacterial deposits on the teeth or tongue. Etymology 2
n. (rfv-sense) a small pterosaur that lived in the late Jurassic Period of the Mesozoic era
Wikipedia
Sordes was a small pterosaur from the late Jurassic ( Oxfordian/ Kimmeridgian) Karabastau Svita of Kazakhstan.
The genus was named in 1971 by Aleksandr Grigorevich Sharov. The type species is Sordes pilosus. The genus name means "filth" or "scum" in Latin, a reference to evil spirits in local folklore. The specific name is Latin for "hairy"; despite sordes being feminine, it has not yet been emended to pilosa.
Usage examples of "sordes".
Fresh sheets, sponging, a spoonful of animal soup, sordes removed from his cracked lips, black in the candlelight.
Two round creatures, known as sordes, came out of the darkness of the tunnel, into the dungeon, bouncing into each other and grunting.
As they walked past, each prisoner would hold out their small metal bowl, and the sordes would plop a spoonful of gray, sticky slop into the bowl.
They were exceedingly muscular, light green in color, and seemed to glisten with the same type of slime as the sordes that had guarded Fuad in the Ardramo prison.
The sordes dropped their battering ram and ran after Shahzanan, but Yar raised his achket blade into the sky, sending forth a deluge that melted them into a small pond.