EXCRETA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does excreta mean? 

• EXCRETA (noun)
  The noun EXCRETA has 1 sense:

1. waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body

  Familiarity information: EXCRETA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXCRETA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

body waste; excrement; excreta; excretion; excretory product

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)

 Context examples 

Infection with CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI (formerly Chlamydia psittaci), transmitted to man by inhalation of dust-borne contaminated nasal secretions or excreta of infected birds.

(Ornithosis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

These viruses are transmitted by aerosolized rodent excreta or rodent bites.

(Hantavirus, NCI Thesaurus)