Excreta synonyms

It was an era of cess pools and human excreta all round.

These hellraisers ride around in South America on the backs of snails, eating the excreta their ambling mounts produce.

Taking as a basis the nature of the source of compounds, he framed three classes: " mineral," comprising the metals, minerals, earths and stones; " vegetable," comprising plants, resins, gums, juices, &c.; and " animal," comprising animals, their different parts and excreta.

Now dead animal substance and the excreta of animals decompose in the long run into carbonic acid, water and mineral salts, and so there is a continual destruction of animal substance both on the land and in the sea.

Peruvian guano is obtained from the excreta of South American sea-birds, and fish guano from the waste of fish.