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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
excreta
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All excreta is eventually metabolized, often by forms of life that are very different from those that produced it.
▪ Another example is the water-borne pathogen Cryptosporidium, a minute organism found in the excreta of farm animals.
▪ Fish package their excreta into a thin gelatinous tube before disposal.
▪ Many prisoners spread their cell walls with their own excreta.
▪ Nothing on day three, but watch for fish excreta.
▪ On one occasion excreta was placed in the fridge and there was an unexplained minor fire.
▪ They do not feed on fish excreta and waste matter.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Excreta

Excreta \Ex*cre"ta\, n. pl. [L.] Matters to be excreted.

Wiktionary
excreta

n. Human bodily waste which is excreted from the body.

WordNet
excreta

n. waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body [syn: body waste, excretion, excrement, excretory product]

Usage examples of "excreta".

Some kind of dire temperature inversion had clamped itself down over the city like a bell jar, trapping and concentrating the cocktail of dust, automobile exhaust, coal smoke, woodsmoke, manure smoke, and the ammoniated gasses that rose up from the stewn excreta of millions of people and animals.

To develop one of these diseases means that the excreta of somebody who has the disease or who has had it, has been taken into the mouth and swallowed, and the germs finding a favorable medium in the intestines have multiplied and produced the typical symptoms.

All excreta behind the front line and reserve trenches is destroyed in numerous incinerators, which are kept burning night and day.

All excreta which cannot be burned is buried so that it cannot be reached by flies.

Then individual playback equipment began to revolt, and the collective excreta really hit the propulsive turbine.

It was decked out with medical gear, urine and excreta reservoirs, decontamination kits, and testing paraphernalia.

Indeed, it thrived on the conditions, as if gunpowder and excreta were its nectar.

An everyday sleepskin would have absorbed the secretions of his skin as easily as it absorbed all other excreta, then turned him out perfectly fresh, but the suit he had been using had only the most elementary provision of that kind.

Ahead of them the seabirds rose in alarm, streaming in a long black smear into the sky, the cormorants and gannets whose excreta through the ages had painted the rocks that glaring white.

Her digested information in the form of conclusions excreta dutifully gathered and removed by Her human workers.

Their copious, rather liquid droppings fouled every inch of any surface whereon people walked, and for all its civic pride, Alexandria seemed to employ no one to wash the mounting excreta away.

The walls are covered with excreta chemically similar to the pile excretions, which forms a mastic to reinforce the tunnel against .

Some kind of dire temperature inversion had clamped itself down over the city like a bell jar, trapping and concentrating the cocktail of dust, automobile exhaust, coal smoke, woodsmoke, manure smoke, and the ammoniated gasses that rose up from the stewn excreta of millions of people and animals.

That fair river entered Mount Thunder through Treacher's Gorge, then plunged into the depths of the earth, where it ran through abandoned Wightwarrens and Demondim breeding dens, Cavewightish slag and refuse pits, charnels and offal grounds and lakes of acid, the excreta of the buried banes.

That fair river entered Mount Thunder through Treacher’s Gorge, then plunged into the depths of the earth, where it ran through abandoned Wightwarrens and Demondim breeding dens, Cavewightish slag and refuse pits, charnels and offal grounds and lakes of acid, the excreta of the buried banes.