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Definition of: excrete
(iks·krēt′) v.t. ·cret·ed, ·cret·ing
To throw off or eliminate, as waste matter, by normal discharge from an organism or any of its tissues. [<L excretus, pp. of excernere <ex- out + cernere separate]
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