excrement

[US]/'ekskrɪm(ə)nt/
[UK]/'ɛkskrɪmənt/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. waste matter discharged from the body, especially feces

Example Sentences

the excrement of sea birds

Avian flu basically is to pass excrement and urine the pollution that waits to basket of dress, shoe, equipment, egg is pestiferous.

Ask medicine for help urgently. 2-year-old child is afraid of flavour specially , self pulls the human excrement city vomiturition , is able to vomit even.

Waste derived from human activitirs, such as rapeseed placentiform from the extraction of rape oil;fruit faeces from the extraction of fruit juice;chicken excrement from the scall farming of chickens.

clean up the excrement

Real-world Examples

Now I love rodent excrement and public education as much as the next girl.

Source: Economic Crash Course

Every species of lemur has its own janitor taking care of it excrement.

Source: Insect Kingdom Season 2 (Original Soundtrack Version)

Because they eat so much, they also produce much more excrement, or waste material, than scientists had thought.

Source: VOA Slow English Technology

But hey, maybe you're not so keen on bacterial excrement, maybe you'd prefer seaweed.

Source: Scishow Selected Series

Scientists have known for some time that people can shed the SARS-CoV-2 virus in our excrement.

Source: Science 60 Seconds - Scientific American February 2022 Collection

Sometimes the excrements was taken away to be inspected by doctors to make sure that King was healthy.

Source: 2018 Best Hits Compilation

An American cockroach will frolic in sewers, consuming excrement and toting microbes like Staphylococcus aureus and E. coli.

Source: Bilingual Edition of TED-Ed Selected Speeches

The 60-year-old woman was stripped naked, her head shaved and was fed excrement as well as been badly beaten.

Source: BBC Listening Compilation April 2013

A false rumour held that excrement aided its fermentation.

Source: The Economist Culture

In a shed on a poultry farm just outside Colchester, in south-east England, thousands of chickens sit on piles of their own excrement.

Source: The Economist (Summary)

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