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body waste

/ˌbɑdi weɪst/
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Other forms: body wastes

Definitions of body waste
  1. noun
    waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body
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    types:
    BM, dejection, faecal matter, faeces, fecal matter, feces, ordure, stool
    solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels
    fecula
    excreta (especially of insects)
    wormcast
    cylindrical mass of earth voided by a burrowing earthworm or lugworm
    human waste
    the body wastes of human beings
    urine, water
    liquid excretory product
    barf, puke, vomit, vomitus
    the matter ejected in vomiting
    guano
    the excrement of sea birds or bats; used as fertilizer
    dog do, dog turd, doggy do
    fecal droppings from a dog
    droppings, dung, muck
    fecal matter of animals
    meconium
    thick dark green mucoid material that is the first feces of a newborn child
    melaena, melena
    abnormally dark tarry feces containing blood (usually from gastrointestinal bleeding)
    type of:
    waste, waste material, waste matter, waste product
    any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted
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