urine

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the liquid waste produced by the kidneys, stored in the bladder, and discharged from the body

   The laboratory tested the urine sample for signs of infection.

From Middle English uryne, borrowed from Latin urina, 'urine,' from an Indo-European base associated with water and moisture. It displaced the native English noun land, though related Germanic forms survive in dialectal vocabulary.

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