Usually means: First stool of a newborn.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (meconium)

noun:  (medicine) A dark green mass, the contents of the fetal intestines during the later stages of mammalian gestation, that forms the first feces of the newborn.
noun:  (obsolete) Opium.

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