excretion

ex·cre·tion

noun \ik-ˈskrē-shən\

Definition of EXCRETION

1

: the act or process of excreting

2

: something excreted; especially : metabolic waste products (as urea and carbon dioxide) that are eliminated from the body

Examples of EXCRETION

1. The kidneys are organs of excretion.

First Known Use of EXCRETION

1578

Rhymes with EXCRETION

accretion, Capetian, completion, concretion, deletion, depletion, Helvetian, Lucretian, Ossetian, Phoenician, repletion, secretion, suppletion, Tahitian, Venetian