excretanoun [ U ]
uk/ɪkˈskriː.tə/us/ɪkˈskriː.t̬ə/formalthe waste material produced by a body, especially solid waste
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Animal physiology: excrement & its excretion
- accident
- anal fissure
- bathroom
- be caught/taken short idiom
- bowel movement
- call of nature idiom
- cowpat
- crap
- dump
- go to the bathroom idiom
- guano
- melaena
- mess
- motion
- move
- pass
- powder your nose idiom
- regular
- shite
- turd
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Examples from literature
- All excreta which cannot be burned is buried so that it cannot be reached by flies.
- Excreta is the most deadly form of waste, and too much care cannot be exercised in disposing of it.
- In a case of suspected typhoid fever the examination of serum, blood and excreta would be necessary to determine whether the case were really typhoid or not.
- In both cases a physiological test of the excreta will give accurate information.
- The appearance of the excreta rather recently left by a bird on a leaf is well known.