What is "excretes"

Usage examples of "excretes".

Indirectly, in the normal functions of its existence, it excretes toxics which effect the blood.

As I said, you can't expect a five-hundred-year-old denizen of the Delphini system, a creature that is composed of silicon, breathes ammonia, excretes an oxygen compound, and has a metabolism that we can't even begin to analyze, to react to a situation quite the same way you or I would.

It seems that the same mouth, or orifice, does double duty: it both ingests the food and excretes it.

It draws nutrients and energy from anything it consumes, and excretes the waste material," said Soleta.