"excretion" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: excretions [plural]
Rhymes: -iːʃən Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French excrétion, or Late Latin excretio, excretionis, from Latin excerno. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|frm|excrétion}} Middle French excrétion, {{bor|en|LL.|excretio|excretio, excretionis}} Late Latin excretio, excretionis, {{der|en|la|excerno}} Latin excerno Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} excretion (countable and uncountable, plural excretions)
  1. The process of removing or ejecting material that has no further utility, especially from the body; the act of excreting. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (process of removing from the body): uitskeiding (Afrikaans), রেচন (recon) (Bengali), отделяне (otdeljane) [neuter] (Bulgarian), 排泄 (pâi-siat) [Hokkien] (Chinese), 排泄 (paai⁴ sit³) (Chinese Cantonese), 排泄 (páixiè) (Chinese Mandarin), vylučování [neuter] (Czech), udskilning [common-gender] (Danish), excretie [feminine] (Dutch), uitscheiding [feminine] (Dutch), eritys (Finnish), erittäminen (Finnish), excrétion [feminine] (French), excreción [feminine] (Galician), Ausscheidung [feminine] (German), Exkretion [feminine] (German), απέκκριση (apékkrisi) [feminine] (Greek), उत्सर्जन (utsarjan) (Hindi), ekskresi (Indonesian), 排泄 (haisetsu) (alt: はいせつ) (Japanese), 배설 (baeseol) (alt: 排泄) (Korean), excretio [feminine] (Latin), perkumuhan (Malay), deravêtin (Northern Kurdish), دفع (Persian), wydalanie [neuter] (Polish), ekskrecja [feminine] (Polish), excreção [feminine] (Portuguese), выделе́ние (vydelénije) [neuter] (Russian), экскре́ция (ekskrécija) [feminine] (Russian), excreción [feminine] (Spanish), paluwasan (Tagalog), ekskresyon (Tagalog), கழிப்பு (kaḻippu) (Tamil), విసర్జన (visarjana) (Telugu), การขับถ่าย (Thai), bài tiết (alt: 排泄) (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-excretion-en-noun-X05kGfHd Disambiguation of 'process of removing from the body': 93 7
  2. Something excreted in that manner, especially urine or feces. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Bodily fluids, Bodily functions Synonyms: excrement, excretum
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: excrete, secretion

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    "en:Bodily fluids",
    "en:Bodily functions"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "frm",
        "3": "excrétion"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle French excrétion",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "LL.",
        "3": "excretio",
        "4": "excretio, excretionis"
      },
      "expansion": "Late Latin excretio, excretionis",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "excerno"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin excerno",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Middle French excrétion, or Late Latin excretio, excretionis, from Latin excerno.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "excretions",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "excretion (countable and uncountable, plural excretions)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "excrete"
    },
    {
      "word": "secretion"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The process of removing or ejecting material that has no further utility, especially from the body; the act of excreting."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "removing",
          "remove"
        ],
        [
          "eject",
          "eject"
        ],
        [
          "utility",
          "utility"
        ],
        [
          "excreting",
          "excrete"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1881, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, Journal of Social Science, page 32:",
          "text": "[…] the removal of all soiled liquids, and of such offaling, secretions and excretions as are easily or naturally reduced to a liquid or semiliquid state.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Something excreted in that manner, especially urine or feces."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "excrete",
          "excrete"
        ],
        [
          "urine",
          "urine"
        ],
        [
          "feces",
          "feces"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "excrement"
        },
        {
          "word": "excretum"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-iːʃən"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "process of removing from the body",
      "word": "uitskeiding"
    },
    {
      "code": "bn",
      "lang": "Bengali",
      "roman": "recon",
      "sense": "process of removing from the body",
      "word": "রেচন"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "otdeljane",
      "sense": "process of removing from the body",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "отделяне"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "roman": "paai⁴ sit³",
      "sense": "process of removing from the body",
      "word": "排泄"
    },
    {
      "code": "nan-hbl",
      "lang": "Chinese",
      "roman": "pâi-siat",
      "sense": "process of removing from the body",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "排泄"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "páixiè",
      "sense": "process of removing from the body",
      "word": "排泄"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "process of removing from the body",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "vylučování"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "process of removing from the body",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "udskilning"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "process of removing from the body",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "excretie"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "process of removing from the body",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "uitscheiding"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "process of removing from the body",
      "word": "eritys"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "process of removing from the body",
      "word": "erittäminen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "process of removing from the body",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "excrétion"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "process of removing from the body",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "excreción"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "process of removing from the body",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Ausscheidung"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "process of removing from the body",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Exkretion"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "apékkrisi",
      "sense": "process of removing from the body",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "απέκκριση"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "utsarjan",
      "sense": "process of removing from the body",
      "word": "उत्सर्जन"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "process of removing from the body",
      "word": "ekskresi"
    },
    {
      "alt": "はいせつ",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "haisetsu",
      "sense": "process of removing from the body",
      "word": "排泄"
    },
    {
      "alt": "排泄",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "baeseol",
      "sense": "process of removing from the body",
      "word": "배설"
    },
    {
      "code": "kmr",
      "lang": "Northern Kurdish",
      "sense": "process of removing from the body",
      "word": "deravêtin"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "process of removing from the body",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "excretio"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "process of removing from the body",
      "word": "perkumuhan"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "sense": "process of removing from the body",
      "word": "دفع"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "process of removing from the body",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "wydalanie"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "process of removing from the body",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ekskrecja"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "process of removing from the body",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "excreção"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "vydelénije",
      "sense": "process of removing from the body",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "выделе́ние"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ekskrécija",
      "sense": "process of removing from the body",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "экскре́ция"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "process of removing from the body",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "excreción"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "process of removing from the body",
      "word": "paluwasan"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "process of removing from the body",
      "word": "ekskresyon"
    },
    {
      "code": "ta",
      "lang": "Tamil",
      "roman": "kaḻippu",
      "sense": "process of removing from the body",
      "word": "கழிப்பு"
    },
    {
      "code": "te",
      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "visarjana",
      "sense": "process of removing from the body",
      "word": "విసర్జన"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "sense": "process of removing from the body",
      "word": "การขับถ่าย"
    },
    {
      "alt": "排泄",
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "process of removing from the body",
      "word": "bài tiết"
    }
  ],
  "word": "excretion"
}

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