excretory

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“It politicizes the human excretory function,” he said to even louder guffaws in the crowd.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2024

"Our research has mapped the excretory patterns of animals, spanning eight orders of scale from tiny cicadas to massive elephants," he said.

From Science Daily • Mar. 11, 2024

Digestive and excretory wastes are collected in a cloacal bladder before being released out the anus.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

Alimentary, nervous, and excretory systems are more developed in the nemertini than in less advanced phyla.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

Organic matter is broken down as it passes through the digestive tracts of the worms and the soil is enriched by their excretory products.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson