Usually means: Waste or excretions from organisms.
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  1. dejecta: Merriam-Webster
  2. dejecta: Collins English Dictionary
  3. dejecta: Wordnik
  4. dejecta: Wiktionary
  5. dejecta: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. dejecta: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. dejecta: Dictionary.com
  8. Dejecta: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. dejecta: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Dejecta: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. dejecta: FreeDictionary.org
  12. dejecta: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. dejecta: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. dejecta: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (dejecta)

noun:  (medicine, zoology) any liquid or solid waste matter that is emanated, shed or discharged from the body. Dejecta include urine, faeces, sputum, pus, mucus, skin sloughing, lochia; their discharge can be nasal, aural, by expectoration, urethral, vaginal and so on.
noun:  Especially, excrements

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