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excretory

adjective as in eliminative

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

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

Sheidlower said that using “f—,” or “s—” for their actual definitions as “sexual terms or excretory terms; that’s still offensive. But that’s not because of the word itself. It’s because those concepts remain taboo.”

When combined with the hygiene rituals of bathrooms, in which we purify ourselves of the results of bodily functions, it's easy to see how conservatives can transfer those feelings from excretory functions to sexual ones.

From Salon

As winter approaches, the worms stop feeding and empty their digestive and excretory systems by defecating — pooping — out any contents.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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