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EXCRETA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body
Synonyms:
body waste; excrement; excreta; excretion; excretory product
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("excreta" is a kind of...):
waste; waste material; waste matter; waste product (any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "excreta"):
BM; dejection; faecal matter; faeces; fecal matter; feces; ordure; stool (solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels)
fecula (excreta (especially of insects))
wormcast (cylindrical mass of earth voided by a burrowing earthworm or lugworm)
human waste (the body wastes of human beings)
pee; piddle; piss; urine; water; weewee (liquid excretory product)
barf; puke; vomit; vomitus (the matter ejected in vomiting)
guano (the excrement of sea birds; used as fertilizer)
