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recrement

[rek-ruh-muhnt] / ˈrɛk rə mənt /






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Recrement, rek′rē-ment, n. superfluous matter: dross.—adjs.

From Project Gutenberg

The absorbent vessels of the embryon continue to drink up nourishment from the fluid in which they swim, or liquor amnii; and which at first needs no previous digestive preparation; but which, when the whole apparatus of digestion becomes complete, is swallowed by the mouth into the stomach, and being mixed with saliva, gastric juice, bile, pancreatic juice, and mucus of the intestines, becomes digested, and leaves a recrement, which produces the first feces of the infant, called meconium.

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Associated words: metallic, metallurgy, metallography, metalliferous, metalliform, metalline, metallist, metallurgical, metallurgist, alloy, lode, dross recrement, bimetallic, bimetallism, monometallic, monometallism. minerals, n. pl.

From Project Gutenberg

The animal, in that case, would arm itself with its own refuse in the same way as it sometimes builds itself a home with its intestinal recrement.

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