feces

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The hindgut restores water and stores undigested waste. this undigestive waste is also known as feces, which is relesased into the environment at the appropriate time.

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  • In the small hold aft there were rats and lice and feces, and there was a space twenty feet by twenty feet in the center of the hold. —  Clavell - King Rat
  • I pick up their feces, and often pick up the neglected ones left nearby.
  • Salmonella poisoning usually stems from people eating food contaminated with animal feces, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. —  News from www.nptelegraph.com
  • Its hair was long and matted with feces, and the bleeding wound was covered with feces and hair, the officer wrote. —  Philly.com - Latest Videos
  • Let’s Eat - Journey ends with making urine and making feces, and the ever-popular defecation reflex. —  Epinions Recent Content for Home
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  1. Middle English, from Latin faecēs, pl. of faex, dregs.
 

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/ˈfisiz/
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