Yahoo Web Search

Search results

1. Dictionary

   excrete

   /ɪkˈskriːt/

   verb

   • 1. (of a living organism or cell) separate and expel as waste (a substance, especially a product of metabolism): "excess bicarbonate is excreted by the kidney"

   Word Origin early 17th century: from Latin excret- ‘sifted out’, from the verb excernere, from ex- ‘out’ + cernere ‘sift’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. excreter noun
   • 2. excretive adjective

   Scrabble Points: 16

   • E

     1

   • X

     8

   • C

     3

   • R

     1

   • E

     1

   • T

     1

   • E

     1

   Powered by Oxford Dictionaries

   More definitions, origin and scrabble points