Crossword clues for excrete
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Excrete \Ex*crete"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Excreted; p. pr. &
vb. n. Excreting.] [L. excretus, p. p. of excernere to sift
out, discharge; ex out + cernere to sift, separate. See
Crisis.]
To separate and throw off; to excrete urine. ``The mucus thus
excreted.''
--Hooper.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, from Latin excretus, past participle of excernere "to sift out, separate" (see excrement). Related: Excreted; excreting.
Wiktionary
vb. (context of an organism English) to discharge from the system.
WordNet
Usage examples of "excrete".
So their band had waited until the Rattler was fully distended, lying like a gorged tube of scratched aluminum, beginning to excrete ingots of ore.
Therefore, the substance of that bone will be slowly dissolved away, and excreted or redeposited elsewhere.
The glandular hairs of ordinary plants have generally been considered by physiologists to serve only as secreting or excreting organs, but we now know that they have the power, at least in some cases, of absorbing both a solution and the vapour of ammonia.
The slightest change in forward momentum induced secretions to occur along the edge of the colony oriented for imminent attachment, and ultimately the colony stuck to its new home, whereupon the females excreted an acidic substrate that bonded with the metal.
A toxin like this batrachotoxin gets concentrated in the liver and is excreted in the bile.
Certain plants excrete a sweet juice, apparently for the sake of eliminating something injurious from their sap: this is effected by glands at the base of the stipules in some Leguminosae, and at the back of the leaf of the common laurel.
At the same time they excrete humic acids into the soil, which encourage the formation of mycorrhizal associations with soil fungi.
The huge animals excreted a constant wake of the photoactive algae they used for ballast.
It was painful to excrete, as it took several segs to get undressed and then was hellishly cold.
It was moving up through the mountain with inexorable determination, cutting a path for itself with its broad stubby boulderlike teeth: gnawing on rock, digesting it, excreting it as moist sand at the far end of a massive fleshy body thirty man-lengths long.
The nanobots are chewing up the substance of the floor and excreting the lattice, patient little workers.
About a pint or more is secreted daily, but much of this is reabsorbed into the bloodstream and circulates back to the liver, to be again excreted, and so on.
Quite amazing, this limited capacity to excrete salt that Sundarbans tigers have developed.
Indirectly, in the normal functions of its existence, it excretes toxics which effect the blood.
After this interval, I felt sure that the aphides would want to excrete.