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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

excrementive en · ADJ

Etymology

From excrement + -ive.

Meanings

  1. (archaic, not-comparable) excretory
    • It may, indeed, be thought a modesty in nature to cover those excrementive parts, which, left uncovered, perhaps might offer offence. In birds, they are wholly concealed by their feathers; in beasts, by the tail they are produced with. 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political: