Excrement

  • 121feces — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. excrement, defecation, [bowel] movement. See excretion. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. excretion, waste, dung; see excrement . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. excrement, dung, stools, *crap …

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  • 122excrete — 01. The waste products [excreted] by yeast in the beer making process actually add flavor to the beer. 02. Trees are very important to our environment because, unlike humans, they take in carbon dioxide and [excrete] oxygen. 03. When an owl eats… …

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  • 123dirt — [13] Dirt was originally drit, and meant ‘excrement’ (it was borrowed from Old Norse drit, which goes back to a prehistoric Germanic base *drit that also produced Dutch dreet ‘excrement’). The toned down sense ‘soiling substance’ is of equal… …

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  • 124Exkrement — Sn Kot erw. fremd. Erkennbar fremd (16. Jh.) Entlehnung. Entlehnt aus l. excrēmentum n., eigentlich Ausscheidung , zu l. excernere, excrētum ausscheiden, aussondern . Zu l. cernere scheiden .    Ebenso nndl. excrement, ne. excrement, nfrz.… …

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  • 125scatologic — adj. pertaining to the study of excrement and obscenity; pertaining to an abnormal interest in excrement or obscenity; pertaining to the study of fossilized excrement …

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  • 126scatological — adj. pertaining to the study of excrement and obscenity; pertaining to an abnormal interest in excrement or obscenity; pertaining to the study of fossilized excrement …

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  • 127scatologies — sca·tol·o·gy || skÉ™ tÉ‘lÉ™dʒɪ / tÉ’ n. study of excrement; abnormal interest in excrement or obscenity; study of fossilized excrement …

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  • 128scatology — sca·tol·o·gy || skÉ™ tÉ‘lÉ™dʒɪ / tÉ’ n. study of excrement; abnormal interest in excrement or obscenity; study of fossilized excrement …

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