Definitions for excrete

excrete ex·crete

Spelling: [ik-skreet]
IPA: /ɪkˈskrit/

Excrete is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 65 anagrams from letters in excrete (ceeertx).

Definitions for excrete

verb (used with object)

  1. to separate and eliminate from an organic body; separate and expel from the blood or tissues, as waste or harmful matter.

Origin of excrete

1610-20; Latin excrētus (past participle of excernere to sift out, separate), equivalent to ex- ex-1 + crē- (perfect stem of cernere to sift) + -tus past par

Examples for excrete

Careful watching showed that the plant-lice after this interval did not excrete the sweet fluid.

The kidneys are the organs which serve to excrete poisons that find their way into the circulation.

This water had been obtained from a well into which the excrete from a typhus patient had percolated from a privy.

Worms, amphibia, fishes, and snails form another group which excrete much less carbonic acid.

Ebola causes the body to excrete fluids that are teeming with the virus.

These tubes are shown to excrete nitrogenous waste products similar to uric acid.

The lungs also excrete a large proportion of waste matter from the system.

It is now well proven that the injury is done, not by the bacilli themselves but by the toxines which they secrete or excrete.

Certain Coccideae also excrete honey-dew, especially in the tropics.

Hormonal excesses in the blood require a clean and healthy liver to metabolize and excrete.

Word Value for excrete
Scrable

16

Words with friends

17

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