[Lat.; neut. pl. of pa. pple. of excernĕre: see EXCERN, EXCRETE.] Excreted matters; the waste expelled from the animal body; now often limited to the fæces and urine, or to the former only.
1857. Livingstone, Trav., xxx. 614. The excreta had been expelled a full yard from the orifice.
1877. Erichsen, Surg., I. 8. The lungs and skin … are unable to set free their excreta.
1878. Huxley, Physiogr., 227. The smoke and ashes of the animal are … the fæcal and urinary excreta.
