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excretion (s) (noun), excretions (pl)
1. The act or process of discharging waste matter from the tissues or organs: The kidneys excrete toxins from the body.
2. Waste matter that has been discharged from an animal or even a plant; such as, the excretion of sweat (animals) or other kinds of moisture (plants).
3. Etymology: from French excrétion, from Latin excretionem and from excernere, "to discharge".
This entry is located in the following unit: cern-, cert-, cer-; cret-, creet-, cre- (page 3)