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excremental

excremental

1 8.4
Relating to waste matter the body gets rid of
  • adjective
  • /ˌɛkskrɪˈmɛntəl/
  • NSFW
: excrementicio
  • Excremental odors from overflowing toilets spread everywhere.

Examples

  • In fact, Burton knew a lot about excremental places.

    Blog text (14)
  • Since men cannot give birth, Nicole Belmont suggests that this eventuality, evoked at the mythological level, can sometimes be related to the excremental function.

    Academic text (2005)
  • His interest in the issue was understandable—the site once termed him "vice president of excremental affairs."

    Academic text (2016)
  • The farmer used excremental fertilizer to enrich the soil in his fields.

  • The excremental waste from the animals was carefully collected for composting.

  • They noticed an excremental odor near the organic farm, indicating some animal presence.

Synonyms

fecal
vsexcremental
  • Specialized
22 6.3

Relating to human or animal waste

is about relation or composition, not only about containing waste matter
excrementitious
vsexcremental
  • NSFW
9.9

Relating to human or animal waste

relates to actual waste matter rather than just resembling it

Antonyms

∞ 1.0

Free from dirt or harmful things

390 1.0

Has nothing mixed with it

Surface Forms

excremental positive

Morphology

excremental = excrement (transparent) = excrement + al

The adjective is a regular suffixal derivation meaning 'relating to excrement'.

Etymology

The word excremental comes from Latin parts ex- 'out' and cernere 'to separate', so it originally named what the body 'separates out'. That's why excremental describes waste matter, especially feces.