excretion
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In her 2024 Booker Prize-winning novel Orbital, author Samantha Harvey puts it more lyrically: "A robot has no need for hydration, nutrients, excretion, sleep… It wants and asks for nothing."
From BBC • Dec. 30, 2024
Their framework reveals diverse functions -- such as excretion, venom spraying, prey hunting, spore dispersal, and plant guttation -- highlighting potential applications in soft robotics, additive manufacturing, and drug delivery.
From Science Daily • Mar. 11, 2024
Scientists have widely studied how creatures across the animal kingdom eat and drink, but few have delved into the mysteries of fluid excretion.
From New York Times • Mar. 11, 2024
This lipoprotein helps remove excess cholesterol from the bloodstream and transports it back to the liver for processing and excretion.
From Salon • Oct. 3, 2023
This plant, which the purist would doubtless consider a weed in any rosebed, releases an excretion from its roots that kills the soil nematodes.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
Vocabulary lists containing excretion
Ecology - Middle School
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Ecology - High School
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Life Science: Human Systems
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