EXCRETA

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body

Synonyms:

body waste; excrement; excreta; excretion; excretory product

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

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)