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defaecation

defaecation is the alternative form of defecation.

Meaning of defecation

Noun

defecation (countable and uncountable, plural defecations)

  1. The act or process of voiding feces from the bowels.
  2. Any of several processes for the removal of impurities, or for clarifying various materials.
    • The juice after it leaves the mill has a more or less green color, due to the presence of large quantities of chlorophyl and other vegetable substances, which must be removed. This process is known as defecation.1883, National Academy of Sciences (US), Investigation of the Scientific and Economic Relations of the Sorghum Sugar Industry, page 84

Forms of defaecation

pluraldefaecations

Questions about defaecation

What is defaecation the alternative form of?
Defaecation is the alternative form of defecation.

Words near defaecation in the dictionary

  1. defactualizing
  2. defaecate
  3. defaecated
  4. defaecates
  5. defaecating
  6. defaecation
  7. defaecations
  8. defaecator
  9. defaecators
  10. defail
  11. defailance

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Adapted from Wiktionary: defaecation (page history and authors); defecation (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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