secernent

English edit

Etymology edit

Latin secernens.

Noun edit

secernent (plural secernents)

That which promotes secretion.
(anatomy) A vessel in, or by means of, which the process of secretion takes place; a secreting vessel.

Adjective edit

secernent (not comparable)

(biology) Secreting; secretory.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “secernent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams edit

sentencer

Latin edit

Verb edit

sēcernent

third-person plural future active indicative of sēcernō