Excrete
[ɪk'skriːt;ek-] or [ɪk'skrit]
Definition
(v. t.) To separate and throw off; to excrete urine.
Typist: Norton
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Separate, discharge, eject, throw off.
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Definition
v.t. to separate from: to eject.—ns.pl. Excrē′ta Excrētes′ matters discharged from the animal body.—n. Excrē′tion act of excreting matter from the animal system: that which is excreted.—adjs. Excrē′tive able to excrete; Excrē′tory having the quality of excreting.—n. a duct that helps to receive and excrete matter.
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Examples
- After this interval, I felt sure that the aphides would want to excrete. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- One might say t hat the brain is the instrument through which the mind manifests itself rather than the organ by which mind is excreted. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Now, let us suppose that the juice or nectar was excreted from the inside of the flowers of a certain number of plants of any species. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
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