WordNet
n. any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted; "they collect the waste once a week"; "much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers" [syn: waste, waste material, waste product]
Usage examples of "waste matter".
It helps to bring about the elimination of harmful waste matter which, if allowed to remain clogging the tissues, would render those tissues liable to infection.
Reeking waste matter provided a breeding ground for noxious insects.
A disgusting stew of bones, excrement, and other sickening waste matter filled the pit to his knees.
All about the body there was movement: snails and slugs and tiny leggy things, all scrounging for the waste matter exuded by their host.
And it must have blood to carry them, and something to remove the waste matter from the cells, or the blood.
Only by developing new forms of life, creating microbes that can eat up our pollutants and convert them into harmless biodegradable waste matter, can we hope to cleanse the Earth quickly enough to avert our own destruction.
And there are whole levels which are used to store water or process waste matter.
It was Security 1K, of course, and Derec did not bother to protest as he was carted to the wall like a lump of waste matter.
It had digestion and circulation, and eliminated waste matter through the reddish tubes of its starfish-shaped base.
The smell of fresh blood and waste matter made a miasma that was almost palpable.