waste product

waste product

noun
1.
material discarded as useless in the process of producing something.
2.
feces, urine, and other material excreted in the life process.

Origin:
1930–35

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Medical Dictionary

waste product n.

  1. Useless or worthless debris produced during or as a result of an activity or other process.

  2. Organic waste matter such as urine, feces, or dead cells.

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
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Science Dictionary
waste product  
An unusable or unwanted substance or material produced during or as a result of a process, such as metabolism or manufacturing.
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