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defecation

[def-i-key-shuhn] / ˌdɛf ɪˈkeɪ ʃən /
NOUN
elimination of excrement
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Their daytime defecations in the waterways — a keystone of many African river habitats — dump massive amounts of nutrients into underwater systems, much as a vanished semiaquatic rhino-like animal might have done.

From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2020

The latest forms of it are but defecations of the earlier.

From Rationalism by Robertson, J. M. (John Mackinnon)




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