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Meaning of dejecta | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
dɪˈdʒɛk.tə

Definitions

  1. any liquid or solid waste matter that is emanated, shed or discharged from the body. Dejecta include urine, faeces, sputum, pus, mucus, skin sloughing, lochia; their discharge can be nasal, aural, by expectoration, urethral, vaginal and so on.
    plural, plural-only
  2. Especially, excrements
    plural, plural-only

Equivalents

Português dejecta

Examples

“the dejecta of the cholera patients”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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See also

Dejected Dejectedly Dejectedness dejecter Dejection Dejections

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