Excreta

Definition: Excreta

Excreta

Noun

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "excreta" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references)

Etymology: Excreta \Ex*cre"ta\, plural noun. [Latin expression]. (references)

Synonyms: Excreta

Excretion

Saliva, spittle, rheum; ptyalism, salivation, catarrh; diarrhoea; ejecta, egesta, sputa; excreta; lava; exuviae; (uncleanness).

Uncleanness

Spawn, offal, gurry; lientery; garbage, carrion; excreta; slough, peccant humor, pus, matter, suppuration, lienteria; faeces, feces, excrement, ordure, dung, crap, sewage, sewerage; muck; coprolite; guano, manure, compost.

Crosswords: Excreta

Romanian (excrete).

Books

• Appropriate Technology for Water Supply and Sanitation: Health Aspects of Excreta and Sullage Management - A State of the Art Review #9187 (reference)

• Community water supply and excreta disposal in South-East Asia : [a mid-decade review] (reference)

• Excreta (reference)

• Guidelines for the Safe Use of Wastewater and Excreta in Agriculture and a Quaculture: Measures for Public Health Protection (reference)

• Sanitation and Disease: Health Aspects of Excreta and Wastewater Management (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Health

Gloves should be worn when disinfecting and cleaning up rodent excreta. (references)

Humans, who are dead-end hosts, may contract the virus when saliva or excreta from infected rodents are inhaled as aerosols produced directly from the animal. (references)

Like many other rodent-borne infectious diseases, LCMV infection can be prevented by avoiding or minimizing direct physical contact with rodents or exposure to their excreta. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Albanian

jashtëqitje (defecation, dejection, excrement, faeces, ordure). (various references)

Bulgarian 

екскрети. (various references)

Chinese 

�'泄物. (various references)

Czech

výmìšky tìla. (various references)

Danish

exkret, ekskrementer (dung, excrements, faecal matter, faeces, feces). (various references)

Dutch

excreta, excrementen (excrements), ejecta, egesta, uitwerpselen (dung, excrement), afvalstoffen (garbage, refuse, waste). (various references)

Finnish

eläinten ulosteet (animal excreta, animal faeces, animal feces), ihmisen ulosteet (human excrements, human excreta, human faeces, human feces). (various references)

French

excrétions, déjections (excrements), déjection animale (excrements). (various references)

German

Exkret (excretion), exkremente (excrements, feces), Excretum, Ausscheidungen (excrements). (various references)

Greek 

περιττώματα (droppings), απόβλητα (effluent, sewage, waste), απεκκρίματα. (various references)

Hungarian

salakanyagok, kiválasztott anyagok. (various references)

Italian

escrezioni, escreti, escrementi (excrement, faeces, feces), deiezioni (castings, dejecta, excrements, feces). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

糞尿 , �'出物 (discharge), 便 (chance, convenience, evacuation, facility, flight, letter, mail, means, opportunity, post, service, stools, way), 屎尿 (human waste, night soil, raw sewage). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しにょう (human waste, night soil, raw sewage), べ�" (braid, convenience, counter for whipping, crown, dialect, discrimination, evacuation, facility, petal, speech, stools, valve), ふ�"にょう, はいしゅつぶつ (discharge). (various references)

Pig Latin

excretaay.(various references)

Portuguese

excretos, excrementos (rejectamenta), excreções, fezes (dregs, faeces, lees), dejecções (excrements). (various references)

Russian 

выделения (rheum). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

izlučenje. (various references)

Spanish

excreta (dejecta, feces), excrementos (faeces, ordure, rejectamenta), excremento (dung, excrement), deyecciones (excrements). (various references)

Swedish

exkret. (various references)

Turkish

pislik (contamination, crap, crud, dinginess, dirt, dirtiness, excrement, faecal matter, faeces, feculence, filth, filthiness, foulness, gook, griminess, impurity, jerk, mess, mire, muck, nastiness, offscourings, ordure, pollution, scum, scurvy, smear, smut, soil, sordidness, squalor, uncleanliness), kaka (dejection, evacuation, excrement, faecal matter, faeces, rejectamenta, stool), dışkı (dejection, evacuation, excrement, excretion, faecal matter, faeces, rejectamenta, rejection, stool, turd), çiş (pee, piss, stale, urine, wee, wee-wee). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "excreta": excretal. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Excreta" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eccrete, ecrete, Escriva, eucrite, Exceat, excer, Excerpta, excert, excete, excetra, excreet, excreete, excret, excreter, excretia, exsheath, extrete. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: exacter.

-1 letter: cerate, create, ecarte.

-2 letters: arete, caret, carex, carte, cater, crate, eater, erect, exact, exert, extra, react, recta, retax, taxer, terce, trace.

-3 letters: acre, care, cart, cate, cere, cete, exec, race, rate, rete, tace, tare, tear, tree.

-4 letters: ace, act, arc, are, art, ate, axe, car, cat, cee, ear, eat, era, ere, eta, rat, rax.

+1 letter: exacters, excretal, execrate.

+2 letters: exarchate, excoriate, execrated, execrates, execrator, extracted, extricate.

+3 letters: exacerbate, exarchates, excoriated, excoriates, excruciate, execrating, execration, execrative, execrators, extractive, extricable, extricated, extricates.

+4 letters: exacerbated, exacerbates, excremental, excruciated, excruciates, execrations, executorial, exorbitance, expectorant, expectorate, extractable, extractives, stereotaxic.

+5 letters: chatterboxes, exacerbating, exacerbation, exercitation, exorbitances, exoterically, expectorants, expectorated, expectorates, extractively, extrahepatic, extranuclear, extravagance, inextricable.