Excretive

  • 1Excretive — Ex*cre tive, a. Having the power of excreting, or promoting excretion. Harvey. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 2excretive — adj. promoting excretion …

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  • 3excretive — a. Excretory …

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  • 4excretive — excrēˈtive adjective 1. Able to excrete 2. Concerned with excretion • • • Main Entry: ↑excrete …

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  • 5excrete — excreter, n. excretive, adj. /ik skreet /, v.t., excreted, excreting. to separate and eliminate from an organic body; separate and expel from the blood or tissues, as waste or harmful matter. [1610 20; < L excretus (ptp. of excernere to sift out …

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  • 6excretory — Synonyms and related words: egestive, eliminative, excretionary, excretive, exudative, lachrymal, lachrymose, lacrimatory, lactational, lacteal, lacteous, leaky, oozy, percolative, permeable, pervious, porous, rheumy, runny, salivant, salivary,&#8230; …

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  • 7secretory — Synonyms and related words: egestive, eliminative, excretionary, excretive, excretory, exudative, lachrymal, lachrymose, lacrimatory, lactational, lacteal, lacteous, rheumy, salivant, salivary, salivous, secretional, secretive, seminal, serous,&#8230; …

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  • 8excretion — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Act of discharging Nouns 1. excretion, discharge, elimination, exhalation, exudation, extrusion, ejaculation, effusion, egestion, extravasation, evacuation, dejection, defecation, urination, micturition; …

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  • 9excrete — [ɪk skri:t, ɛk ] verb (of a living organism) separate and expel as waste (a substance, especially a product of metabolism). Derivatives excreter noun excretion noun excretive adjective excretory adjective …

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  • 10excretory — a. Excretive …

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