Excreters

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. Entities or organisms that eliminate waste materials or bodily substances through a process involving expulsion from the body
2. Living beings that discharge metabolic or bodily waste products as part of their physiological functions
3. Creatures that remove and release unwanted substances or excretions as a natural biological activity

Etymology: "Excreters" is simply the plural of "excreter", a noun for a living creature that expels waste from its body. The noun is formed from "excrete" with the suffix "-er", which marks a person or thing that performs an action, so an excreter is literally one that excretes. The verb "excrete" itself comes from Latin "excernere", meaning "to separate out" or "sift out", built from "ex-" ("out") and "cernere" ("to sift" or "separate"). The root sense of sifting out what does not belong is the same idea that the body's waste-removal processes carry.

Synonyms: emitters, dischargers, expellers, excretors, secretors