Definitions for secretes

secretes se·crete

Spelling: [si-kreet]
IPA: /sɪˈkrit/

Secretes is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 149 anagrams from letters in secretes (ceeersst).

Definitions for secretes

noun

  1. a steel skullcap of the 17th century, worn under a soft hat.

verb (used with object)

  1. to discharge, generate, or release by the process of secretion.
  2. to place out of sight; hide; conceal:

Origin of secretes

First recorded in 1700-10; back formation from secretion

Examples for secretes

Recent microscopic investigations have shown it to consist of a minute vegetable cell, which secretes a red colouring matter.

This is the apparatus which secretes the silk; it is the double silk-bearing gland.

Cowper's Gland, which secretes a liquid which makes the urethra alkaline.

It does not bite but secretes an acid which can sting the eyes.

The gastric glands are little tubes, the lining of which secretes the fluid.

The boke of secretes of Albartus Magnus, of the vertues of Herbes, stones and certaine beastes.

What is hee that knoweth the secretes of heartes which be impenetrable?

It is also known that when the human system is out of order it secretes poison.

It secretes a serous fluid which keeps the inner surfaces moist.

He secretes them with the infatuation of a dog interring bones.

Word Value for secretes
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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