Meaning of EXCREMENT
| Pronunciation: | | 'ekskrumunt
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[n] waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body |
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EXCREMENT is a 9 letter word that starts with E. |
| | Synonyms: | | body waste, excreta, excretion, excretory product |
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| | See Also: | | BM, dejection, faecal matter, faeces, fecal matter, feces, fecula, guano, human waste, ordure, pee, piddle, piss, puke, stool, urine, vomit, vomitus, waste, waste material, waste matter, waste product, water, weewee, wormcast | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Ex"cre*ment\, n. [L. excrementum, fr. excernere,
excretum, to skin out, discharge: cf. F. excr['e]ment. See
{Excrete}.]
Matter excreted and ejected; that which is excreted or cast
out of the animal body by any of the natural emunctories;
especially, alvine, discharges; dung; ordure.
\Ex"cre*ment\, n. [L. excrementum, fr. excrescere,
excretum, to grow out. See {Excrescence}.]
An excrescence or appendage; an outgrowth. [Obs.]
``Ornamental excrements.'' --Fuller.
Living creatures put forth (after their period of
growth) nothing that is young but hair and nails, which
are excrements and no parts. --Bacon.
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| | Related Terms: | | carrion, corruption, dandruff, decay, dejecta, dejection, dejecture, discharge, effluent, egesta, ejecta, ejectamenta, ejection, excreta, excretes, extravasate, extravasation, exudate, exudation, filth, foul matter, furfur, gangrene, mess, muck, mucus, obscenity, ordure, pus, putrid matter, rot, scurf, scuz, slime, smut, snot, sordes, transudate, transudation, waste, waste matter |
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