A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

foedus,-a,-um (adj.A): offensive to the senses, foul, loathsome, unclean; “repulsive in appearance, hideous, ugly; fearful, frightful, severe, grievous (as of storms); repugnant to refined taste or civilized feeling, monstrous, horrible; shameful, disgraceful, vile, infamous; indecent, obscene (Glare); syn. taeter, q.v., taetra, taetrum (adj.A), teter, tetra, tetrum (adj.A), putidus,-a,-um (adj.A) q.v.; see stinking;

[moss] locis aridis, ruderosis, praesertim carbonariorum areis Koelreutera hygrometrica delectatur; quin et coemeteriorum tumuli imo humana crania ossaque nonnullis foedum domicilium praebent (Brid.), Koelreutera hygrometrica takes pleasure in dry, rubbly [i.e. full of broken stones] places, especially in areas of charcoal furnaces; or even also the tumuli of graveyards, even more the human skulls and bones provide a ghastly habitation to some.