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Definition: Excretory |
ExcretoryAdjective1. Of or relating to the process of excretion. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "excretory" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1837. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Excretion is the biological process by which an organism separates waste products from its body. The waste products are then usually expelled from the body by elimination.In mammals, for example, the two major excretory processes are the formation of urine in the kidneys and the formation of feces in the intestines. The waste products are eliminated by defecation and urination respectively.
In insects, a system involving Malpighian tubules is utilized to excrete metabolic waste. Metabolic wastes diffuses or is activiley transported into the tubule, which transports the wastes to the intestines. The metabolic waste is then released from the body along with fecal material.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Excretion."
Crosswords: Excretory |
| English words defined with "excretory": anus, arse ♦ biliary ductule, BM ♦ dejection ♦ Egesta ♦ faecal matter, faeces, fecal matter, feces ♦ green gland ♦ kidney ♦ nephron ♦ ordure ♦ Parorchis, pee, piddle, piss, Pseudo-heart ♦ renal calculus ♦ Sand canal, scatological, sebaceous cyst, Segmental duct, Segmental organs, stool ♦ urine, uriniferous tubule ♦ Vasa deferentia ♦ water, Water tube, weewee. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "excretory": Adenophorea ♦ CDA ♦ Malpighian Tubules ♦ Oxyurida ♦ p-Aminohippuric Acid ♦ Rhabditoidea ♦ Secernentea, Strongylida ♦ visceral hump, visceral mass. (references) |
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| "Excretory" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Excretory" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 11 | 106,044 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "excretory": excretory organ ♦ excretory product. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "excretory": excretory-duct, excretory-organs. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "excretory"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | sekretues (excretive, secretory), nxjerrës (ejector, exhaust, extractive, extractor, wrecker). (various references) | |
Arabic | مفرز (secernent, secretive), مطرح. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | отделителен (excretive, secernant, secretory). (various references) | |
Czech | vymìšovací (excretive). (various references) | |
Danish | exkretorisk. (various references) | |
Dutch | excretorius, excretorisch. (various references) | |
Finnish | laskimourografia (excretory urography, intravenous pyelography). (various references) | |
French | excrétoire. (various references) | |
German | exkretorisch, excretorius. (various references) | |
Greek | απεκκριτικός. (various references) | |
Hungarian | kiválasztó (excretive, secretive, secretory, selective). (various references) | |
Italian | escretorio. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | '泄器官 (excretory organ). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | はいせつきか" (excretory organ). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | excretoryay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | excretório (excretive). (various references) | |
Romanian | excretor (excretive). (various references) | |
Russian | экскреторный, выделительный (secernent, secretory). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | koji luči. (various references) | |
Spanish | excretorio (excretive). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | видільний, екскреторний. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Excretory" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: excreter, execretary, execretory. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "excretory" (pronounced e"kskrutô'rē) |
| 6 | -r u t ô' r ē | celebratory, declaratory, laboratory, expiratory, exploratory, migratory, oratory, preparatory, territory. |
| 5 | -u t ô' r ē | accusatory, aleatory, ambulatory, anticipatory, articulatory, auditory, circulatory, compensatory, conciliatory, confirmatory, confiscatory, congratulatory, contributory, defamatory, depilatory, depository, derogatory, dilatory, discriminatory, laudatory, lavatory, dormitory, exculpatory, explanatory, hallucinatory, incantatory, inflammatory, inhibitory, interrogatory, investigatory, mandatory, nondiscriminatory, obligatory, observatory, oscillatory, participatory, predatory, prohibitory, purgatory, reformatory, regulatory, repository, respiratory, retaliatory, revelatory, signatory, statutory, transitory. |
| 4 | -t ô' r ē | desultory, multistory, repertory, understory. |
| 3 | -ô' r ē | allegory, category, outlawry, promissory. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-o-r-r-t-x-y" | |
-2 letters: coexert, erector, rectory. | |
-3 letters: cortex, rector, retore. | |
-4 letters: corer, coyer, crore, erect, exert, oxeye, oxter, recto, retro, retry, terce, terry, toyer. | |
-5 letters: cere, cero, cete, core, cory, cote, eery, exec, eyer, eyre, oryx, oyer, rete, rote, ryot, torc, tore, torr, tory, tree, trey, troy, tyee, tyer, tyre, tyro, yore. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-o-r-r-t-x-y" | |
+4 letters: archaeopteryx. | |
+5 letters: extraembryonic, hyperexcretion. | |
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