rejectamentan.

1791 Trans. Linn. Soc. 1 131 A plant belonging to the order of Algæ of the Cryptogamia class of Linnæus..has been found in great quantities on the beach at Yarmouth, amongst other rejectamenta of the sea.

1819 G. Samouelle Entomologist's Compend. 101 [He] found it..amongst rejectamenta of the sea.

1866 R. Tate Plain & Easy Acct. Mollusks Great Brit. iv. 155 Pupa badia is common among the rejectamenta of our tidal rivers.

1948 Jrnl. Animal Ecol. 17 181/2 At the bottom of this zone was a belt of tidal rejectamenta about a yard wide.

1995 P. E. King & P. J. A. Pugh in P. J. Hayward & J. S. Ryland Handbk. Marine Fauna N.W. Europe ix. 470/1 Myriapoda... On upper littoral under rejectamenta or in crevices.

1795 A. H. Haworth Observ. Genus Mesembryanthemum ii. 405 It can scarcely be supposed the refuse or rejectamenta of any absorbed fluid, too large for the filtrating orifices of the absorbing vessels to take in;—for if that was the case, the oldest leaves would be the most densely covered with it.

1817 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. II. xxvi. 437 A scavenger, whose business it is to sweep the streets and convey the rejectamenta to one grand repository.

1850 D. J. Browne Amer. Poultry Yard 201 The rejectamenta of the kitchen..are..accepted with eagerness.

1877 W. H. Dall Tribes Extreme Northwest 45 Bones, shells, and all varieties of rejectamenta having been deposited here for centuries.

1917 E. S. Morse Japan Day by Day xxv. 378 Old chests, baskets, corn drying, and the rejectamenta of a house, saved by the spirit of frugality in the hopes that sometime they may be useful.

1989 N. Cave And Ass saw Angel ii. xvi. 158 Included in the rejectamenta were a few sundry personals from her younger days that she had hoarded in a hatbox trussed up with a now rotten satin ribbon.

1834 Mag. Nat. Hist. 7 460 ‘The husk of grain..is afterwards discharged from the mouth of the rook..’. Any one may satisfy himself of it, who will but examine the ground under a rookery in spring, where he will find the surface strewed with abundance of such rejectamenta.

1879 A. S. Packard Zool. (1881) ii. 43 There being many pores or mouths, and but a single outlet for the rejectamenta.

1921 J. M. Clarke Org. Dependence & Dis. 64 A proboscis..carried the anal aperture upon its summit..for the purpose of conveying the rejectamenta beyond the reach of the mouth.

1996 Jrnl. Arachnol. 24 59/1 The midden of rejected prey remains (rejectamenta) was collected from 32 burrows [of trapdoor spiders].

1797 Crit. Rev. June 180 M[onadelphia] verticillata is now properly rejected [as a taxonomic name], being probably a rejectamentum.

1847 P. Burne Teetotaler's Compan. vi. 284 The rejectamentum of all the citizens in the metropolis—all the deposits of every kind, from all and every house—all mixing at the same time, in the same place!

1870 J. G. Macvicar Sketch Philos. Part III.: Chem. xi. 117 All that is individualized and yet non-sentient is of the nature of a falling away, an excretion, or a rejectamentum from an universe of living beings and things.

1932 Hong Kong Naturalist 3 15 There is no juicy covering which might be eaten by birds, leaving a hard rejectamentum.