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Excreta is a laboratory and public-health word for the waste people and animals send out of the body. It usually covers more than solid waste: urine and , and sometimes other discharged matter. You will see it in biology, farming, and hygiene writing, almost never in chat. It comes from Latin already in a plural shape, and English has never quite settled. Careful science writing may treat it as plural — “the excreta are collected” — though many writers use it as a mass of stuff: “excreta is collected.” Both happen. Though actually, students often treat it as a fancy twin of excrement. The tidy difference is that excrement usually points at , while excreta is the broader bin the lab uses.
排泄物(生物、醫學用語,常含尿與糞,不只大便)。
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
excretanoun/ɪkˈskɹiːtə/
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Bodily waste which is excreted from the body.
- Human excreta are made up mostly of urine and excrement that include diverse complex molecules derived from foods and bodily processes – carbohydrates, sugars, fats, etc.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。