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ecosan

ecosan noun: ecological sanitation (reuse of excreta for agriculture).

Noun (1)

ecosan (uncountable)

  1. ecological sanitation (reuse of excreta for agriculture)

Noun (2) capitalized: EcoSan

EcoSan (uncountable)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of ecosan (“ecological santitation”).

Forms of ecosan

alternative formeco-san
alternative formEcoSan

Origin of ecosan

Blend of ecological + sanitation.

Questions about ecosan

What does ecosan mean?
Ecosan means ecological sanitation (reuse of excreta for agriculture).
What part of speech is ecosan?
Ecosan is a noun.

Words near ecosan in the dictionary

  1. ecorticate
  2. ecos
  3. ecosabotage
  4. ecosaboteur
  5. ecosaboteurs
  6. ecosan
  7. ecosanctuaries
  8. ecosanctuary
  9. ecoscape
  10. ecoscapes
  11. ecosection

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ecosan (page history and authors); EcoSan (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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