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Excrements. Fungi which grow on the dejecta of warm-blooded animals, dung, feathers, &c. De Bary, Fungi (trans.), p. 357.

Although the water problem, however formidable, may be soluble, these books do not hold out much hope for the dejecta problem-at least by common criteria. — American Scientist Online
The sweat in dysentery unmistakably bears the odor of the dejecta. — Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
Abore dejecta quivis ligna colligit. — Bacon is Shake-Speare
Old Neptune Inn became the _Morning Chronicle_ office; the whereabouts of its _dejecta membra_ are now a dead secret. — Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present
The Big Necessity, by Rose George, and The Last Taboo, by Maggie Black and Ben Fawcett-is "sanitation," itself a euphemism for excrement, or, depending on the venue, feces, dejecta (a wonderfully Latinate and Victorian term), pooh or poop, crap or, finally, shit. — American Scientist Online