as in dung
solid matter discharged from an animal's alimentary canal
an ordinance that requires dog walkers to remove their animal's excrement from city streets
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Hypodermic needles, bags of marijuana, moldy clothes, human excrement, tires and condoms littered the street, according to neighbors’ accounts and photos taken by Malone.
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Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2024
In recent weeks, North Korea has sent hundreds of balloons with bags of trash and excrement into the South in apparent retaliation to activists there dispatching anti-Pyongyang propaganda.
—Charlie Campbell, TIME, 19 June 2024
Rain water picks up bacteria from the environment, such as from animal or human excrement, then carries it into bodies of water.
—Elysee Barakett, NBC News, 3 July 2024
After passing through their hind gut, their excrement exits their body past their rectal pads—which compress the frass, AKA poop, into hexagonal prisms!
—Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 3 July 2024
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Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2024
In recent weeks, North Korea has sent hundreds of balloons with bags of trash and excrement into the South in apparent retaliation to activists there dispatching anti-Pyongyang propaganda.
—Charlie Campbell, TIME, 19 June 2024
Rain water picks up bacteria from the environment, such as from animal or human excrement, then carries it into bodies of water.
—Elysee Barakett, NBC News, 3 July 2024
After passing through their hind gut, their excrement exits their body past their rectal pads—which compress the frass, AKA poop, into hexagonal prisms!
—Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 3 July 2024
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