Excrete
verb
To get rid of waste substances from the body.
Humans excrete waste through sweat, urine, and feces.
Often appears as...
- animals excrete waste
- excrete toxins
verb
To release a substance, especially from the cells or tissues of a living organism.
The glands excrete hormones into the bloodstream.
Often appears as...
- excrete a substance
- excrete hormones
Usage tips
Academic
verb
To get rid of waste substances from the body.
Humans excrete waste through sweat, urine, and feces.
Often appears as...
- animals excrete waste
- excrete toxins
verb
To release a substance, especially from the cells or tissues of a living organism.
The glands excrete hormones into the bloodstream.
Often appears as...
- excrete a substance
- excrete hormones
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Bodily Functions
Used when discussing the natural process of waste elimination in living organisms.
Most birds excrete while in flight as part of their bodily functions.
Pro Tip 2/3Medical Context
Often encountered in medical or biological texts discussing the function of organs.
The doctor explained how kidneys excrete urine.
Pro Tip 3/3Casual Conversation
Less common in casual talks, use 'go to the bathroom' or similar phrases instead.
In casual conversations, people rarely say they need to excrete.
Pro Tip 1/3Bodily Functions
Used when discussing the natural process of waste elimination in living organisms.
Most birds excrete while in flight as part of their bodily functions.
Pro Tip 2/3Medical Context
Often encountered in medical or biological texts discussing the function of organs.
The doctor explained how kidneys excrete urine.
Pro Tip 3/3Casual Conversation
Less common in casual talks, use 'go to the bathroom' or similar phrases instead.
In casual conversations, people rarely say they need to excrete.
Pro Tip 1/3Bodily Functions
Used when discussing the natural process of waste elimination in living organisms.
Most birds excrete while in flight as part of their bodily functions.
Pro Tip 2/3Medical Context
Often encountered in medical or biological texts discussing the function of organs.
The doctor explained how kidneys excrete urine.
Pro Tip 3/3Casual Conversation
Less common in casual talks, use 'go to the bathroom' or similar phrases instead.
In casual conversations, people rarely say they need to excrete.
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Video examples
What does the liver do?...
channeling it through the kidneys and intestine to be excreted. Of course, we wouldn't consider the liver a factory if it didn't also manufacture things. This organ makes everything from various blood plasma proteins that transport fatty acids and help form blood clots, to the cholesterol that helps the body create hormones.
Video examples
Michael Levin: The...
The good news is you have this amazing three-dimensional view of the world, but the bad news is you have to poop through both of your mouths? So, the worms have these little tubes called pharynxes, and the tubes are sort of in the middle of the body, and they excrete through that. These animals are perfectly viable.
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Safari Live - Day 226 PIPE...
having quite a lot of parasites you see them opening their legs and exposing themselves to the Sun so but here I'm sure he's helping him with that but also in order to arrange too much food which is in the stomach at the moment I saw not long time ago he also excreted he just left the
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Words worth knowing from...
of a German word meaning to gobble and before I learned that I had never thought of excretion as the past tense of eating so and i thought this Oh back one this word was wonderful Monica told us that in order to in order to change the world we have to change our beliefs
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The sharks that hunt in...
Some species can even excrete the excess minerals through specially adapted salt glands. All these processes make mangroves more than a little salty, but that doesn’t deter coastal life from living in their nooks and crannies. While birds nest among mangrove branches,
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Saving Manatees: What It...
they excrete a lot they excretion acts of acts as food for crustaceans and and small fishes and other other species within the within the ecosystem so they they manage to keep a balance in the ecosystem and people do eat fishes that also manages an important role in
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Sneezing Free Diving...
several times it's iguanas snot and its really salty what they're actually doing is excreting the salt that they take in when they ingest all that seaweed get it from all angles here by basking these iguanas will have raised their body temperature
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This sea creature...
On the deep sea floor, they comprise the majority of animal biomass, reaching up to 95% in some areas. As these sausage-shaped wonders trudge along, they vacuum up sand, digest the organic matter it contains, and excrete the byproduct.
Video examples
Can you solve the frog...
So you're stranded in a huge rainforest, and you've eaten a poisonous mushroom. To save your life, you need the antidote excreted by a certain species of frog.
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Juan Enriquez: The...
and excretes sulfuric acid. So, when you think of odd life forms, when you think of what it takes to live, it turns out this is a very efficient life form,
Video examples
What does the liver do?...
channeling it through the kidneys and intestine to be excreted. Of course, we wouldn't consider the liver a factory if it didn't also manufacture things. This organ makes everything from various blood plasma proteins that transport fatty acids and help form blood clots, to the cholesterol that helps the body create hormones.
Video examples
Michael Levin: The...
The good news is you have this amazing three-dimensional view of the world, but the bad news is you have to poop through both of your mouths? So, the worms have these little tubes called pharynxes, and the tubes are sort of in the middle of the body, and they excrete through that. These animals are perfectly viable.
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 226 PIPE...
having quite a lot of parasites you see them opening their legs and exposing themselves to the Sun so but here I'm sure he's helping him with that but also in order to arrange too much food which is in the stomach at the moment I saw not long time ago he also excreted he just left the
Video examples
Words worth knowing from...
of a German word meaning to gobble and before I learned that I had never thought of excretion as the past tense of eating so and i thought this Oh back one this word was wonderful Monica told us that in order to in order to change the world we have to change our beliefs
Video examples
The sharks that hunt in...
Some species can even excrete the excess minerals through specially adapted salt glands. All these processes make mangroves more than a little salty, but that doesn’t deter coastal life from living in their nooks and crannies. While birds nest among mangrove branches,
Video examples
Saving Manatees: What It...
they excrete a lot they excretion acts of acts as food for crustaceans and and small fishes and other other species within the within the ecosystem so they they manage to keep a balance in the ecosystem and people do eat fishes that also manages an important role in
Video examples
Sneezing Free Diving...
several times it's iguanas snot and its really salty what they're actually doing is excreting the salt that they take in when they ingest all that seaweed get it from all angles here by basking these iguanas will have raised their body temperature
Video examples
This sea creature...
On the deep sea floor, they comprise the majority of animal biomass, reaching up to 95% in some areas. As these sausage-shaped wonders trudge along, they vacuum up sand, digest the organic matter it contains, and excrete the byproduct.
Video examples
Can you solve the frog...
So you're stranded in a huge rainforest, and you've eaten a poisonous mushroom. To save your life, you need the antidote excreted by a certain species of frog.
Video examples
Juan Enriquez: The...
and excretes sulfuric acid. So, when you think of odd life forms, when you think of what it takes to live, it turns out this is a very efficient life form,
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Quote examples
John Doerr
American Businessman
Better biofuels are a really big deal. That means we can precisely engineer the molecules in the fuel chain and optimize them along the way. So, if all goes well, they're going to have designer bugs in warm vats that are eating and digesting sugars to excrete better biofuels. I guess that's better living through bugs.
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Mary Roach
American Author
I think by and large, humans prefer to think of themselves as minds from the neck up. We don't really like to think of ourselves as another animal, another digesting, excreting, mating, snoring, sleeping kind of sack of guts. I don't think we like that. I think we'd rather not be reminded of it.
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Jeffrey Kluger
American Writer
A jellyfish is little more than a pulsating bell, a tassel of trailing tentacles and a single digestive opening through which it both eats and excretes - as regrettable an example of economy of design as ever was.
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Hans Fischer
German Scientist
In cases of porphyria, a minor disease, the patient excretes large quantities of porphyrins.
Quote examples
John Doerr
American Businessman
Better biofuels are a really big deal. That means we can precisely engineer the molecules in the fuel chain and optimize them along the way. So, if all goes well, they're going to have designer bugs in warm vats that are eating and digesting sugars to excrete better biofuels. I guess that's better living through bugs.
Quote examples
Mary Roach
American Author
I think by and large, humans prefer to think of themselves as minds from the neck up. We don't really like to think of ourselves as another animal, another digesting, excreting, mating, snoring, sleeping kind of sack of guts. I don't think we like that. I think we'd rather not be reminded of it.
Quote examples
Jeffrey Kluger
American Writer
A jellyfish is little more than a pulsating bell, a tassel of trailing tentacles and a single digestive opening through which it both eats and excretes - as regrettable an example of economy of design as ever was.
Quote examples
Hans Fischer
German Scientist
In cases of porphyria, a minor disease, the patient excretes large quantities of porphyrins.
Example 1 of 4
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