excurrent

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Water is brought into its body through the incurrent siphon and the water is removed from its body through the excurrent siphon.

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  1. adjective Running or flowing in an outward direction.
  2. adjective Marked by an outward flow of current.
  3. adjective Botany Having a single, undivided trunk with lateral branches, as in spruce trees.

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  1. Latin excurrēns, excurrent-, present participle of excurrere, to run out; see excursion.

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  1. from Latin excurren(t-)s, present participle of excurrere, run out, project: see excur.
 

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/ɛksˈkərənt/
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