Examples of exudate in a Sentence
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The soil food web microbes are responding to the exudates the new blades of grass are manufacturing.
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Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 25 May 2023
The soil around them harbors those carbon exudates.
—Jeff Lowenfels | Alaska Gardening and Growing, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Feb. 2023
Castoreum is a yellowish exudate from the castor sacs of mature beavers, who use it to scent mark their territories.
—Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Oct. 2022
The black substance is sooty mold, which feeds on the exudate from sucking insects.
—oregonlive, 27 Mar. 2022
In return the plant roots produce an exudate that feeds the fungi.
—oregonlive, 26 Mar. 2022
If we or people around us had blasted out a different sort of bodily eruption with so little effort at containment, and with significant exudate, .
—Gene Weingarten, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2020
The adhesive skin exudate of Notaden bennetti frogs (Anura: Limnodynastidae) has similarities to the prey capture glue of Euperipatoides sp.
—Dani Rabaiotti, Quartz, 18 June 2019
Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 25 May 2023
The soil around them harbors those carbon exudates.
—Jeff Lowenfels | Alaska Gardening and Growing, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Feb. 2023
Castoreum is a yellowish exudate from the castor sacs of mature beavers, who use it to scent mark their territories.
—Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Oct. 2022
The black substance is sooty mold, which feeds on the exudate from sucking insects.
—oregonlive, 27 Mar. 2022
In return the plant roots produce an exudate that feeds the fungi.
—oregonlive, 26 Mar. 2022
If we or people around us had blasted out a different sort of bodily eruption with so little effort at containment, and with significant exudate, .
—Gene Weingarten, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2020
The adhesive skin exudate of Notaden bennetti frogs (Anura: Limnodynastidae) has similarities to the prey capture glue of Euperipatoides sp.
—Dani Rabaiotti, Quartz, 18 June 2019
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Word History
First Known Use
1876, in the meaning defined above
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“Exudate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/exudate. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
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Medical Definition
exudate
noun
ex·u·date
ˈek-s(y)u̇-ˌdāt 
-shu̇-
-shu̇-
: exuded matter
especially
: the material composed of serum, fibrin, and white blood cells that escapes from blood vessels into a superficial lesion or area of inflammation
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