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How to pronounce excreta in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms body waste, excrement, excretion, excretory product
Type of waste product, waste, waste material, waste matter
Has types faeces, fecal matter, feces, fecula, guano, human waste, ordure, pee, piddle, piss, puke, stool, urine, vomit, vomitus, water, weewee, barf, wormcast, bm, dejection, faecal matter

Examples of excreta

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Sealed by knotting, it acts as a micro treatment plant to break down the excreta.
From the economist.com
To the plant the excreta are more readily assimilable than intact insects would be.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The departing excreta typically reaches distances of about 40 centimetres.
From the newscientist.com
I cleaned the molasses-like excreta from his perfect skin and cried through the night.
From the guardian.co.uk
All these can be dealt with through safe disposal of excreta and safe hygienic behaviour.
From the guardian.co.uk
This is an unsightly fungus that grows on the excreta of insects and on plant exudates.
From the pe.com
Fish package their excreta into a thin gelatinous tube before disposal.
From the newscientist.com
I would imagine the largest contributor in that category would be the addition of human excreta.
From the newscientist.com
All persons shall remove and properly dispose of animal excreta from any park, beach or recreational area.
From the ocregister.com
More examples
  • Body waste: waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body
  • Excretion is the process by which waste products of metabolism and other non-useful materials are eliminated from an organism. It is an essential process in all forms of life. It contrasts secretion, where the substance may have specific tasks after leaving the cell.
  • Human bodily waste which is excreted from the body
  • Is the mixture of urine and faeces that is not mixed with any flushing water (although small amounts of anal cleansing water may be included.
  • (1) in a medical context: feces; (2) more broadly, any waste product of the body or of a cell.
  • The waste products of metabolism.
  • Solid wastes; feces.