Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word EXCRETE
EXCRETE
Definitions of EXCRETE
- (biology, ambitransitive) To discharge material (including waste products) from a cell, body or system.
Number of letters
7
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using EXCRETE in a Sentence
- Normally given wings in art, angels are usually intended, in both Christian and Islamic art, to be beautiful, though several depictions go for more awe-inspiring or frightening attributes, notably in the depiction of the living creatures (which have bestial characteristics), ophanim (which are wheels) and cherubim (which have mosaic features); As a matter of theology, they are spiritual beings who do not eat or excrete and are genderless.
- It has a variety of additional functions: it may serve to maintain water balance, protect the deeper tissues, excrete wastes, and regulate body temperature, and is the attachment site for sensory receptors which detect pain, sensation, pressure, and temperature.
- It is a key intermediate in the urea cycle, the pathway by which mammals excrete ammonia by converting it into urea.
- After consuming a lethal dose of a residual bait insecticide known to have delayed toxicant activity, cockroaches return to the harborage where they excrete feces.
- They do, however, excrete a substance that causes a temporary, non-harmful discoloration of the skin known as millipede burn.
- Although Vaucanson's duck supposedly demonstrated digestion accurately, his duck actually contained a hidden compartment of "digested food", so that what the duck defecated was not the same as what it ate; the duck would eat a mixture of water and seed and excrete a mixture of bread crumbs and green dye that appeared to the onlooker indistinguishable from real excrement.
- Some ants live in symbiotic relationships with them, protecting them from predators and feeding off the honeydew which they excrete.
- All amphibians, reptiles, birds, and a few mammals (monotremes, tenrecs, golden moles, and marsupial moles) have this orifice, from which they excrete both urine and feces; this is in contrast to most placental mammals, which have two or three separate orifices for evacuation and reproduction.
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