excretion
English Thesaurus
1. the bodily process of discharging waste matter (noun.process)
| hypernym | : | discharge, emission, expelling, |
| definition | : | any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body (noun.process) |
2. waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body (noun.substance)
| hyponym | : | fecula, |
| definition | : | excreta (especially of insects) (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | wormcast, |
| definition | : | cylindrical mass of earth voided by a burrowing earthworm or lugworm (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | human waste, |
| definition | : | the body wastes of human beings (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | guano, |
| definition | : | the excrement of sea birds; used as fertilizer (noun.substance) |
3. the bodily process of discharging waste matter (noun.process)
| derivation | : | empty, evacuate, void, |
| definition | : | excrete or discharge from the body (verb.body) |
| derivation | : | empty, evacuate, void, |
| definition | : | excrete or discharge from the body (verb.body) |
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