Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A substance that has oozed forth.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To exude; ooze out.
- n. An exudation.
- In botany, to yield an exudate.
Wiktionary
- n. A fluid that has exuded from somewhere; especially one that has exuded from a pore of an animal or plant.
- v. obsolete To exude.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. obsolete To exude.
- n. A product of exudation; an exuded substance.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a substance that oozes out from plant pores
- v. release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities
Etymologies
- Latin exsūdātum, neuter past participle of exsūdāre, to exude; see exude. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“They highlight that the indications for tonsillectomy are not just in cases of strep infections but in cases of severe tonsillitis manifested by fever, swollen glands — enlargement of the lymph nodes — and exudate fluid, said Schreibstein.”
USA Today: No surgery for moderate tonsillitis, new guidelines say
“In 2007, R B Berry wrote: That a high cohesive gel implant could have suffered such a massive failure only three years after implantation is very worrying and, in this case, not only had silicone migrated to a regional lymph node, but the exposed silicone gel appears to have provoked an inflammatory response with the production of a significant quantity of serous exudate.”
The Guardian: The PIP breast implant scandal shows the real cost of private health | Richard Horton
“This unique gelling action enables the dressings to lock in exudate and its harmful components* (4,5,6).”
Forbes: New In Vitro Study Data Shows Importance of Dressing Conformability to Action of...
“However, chasing the elusive state that cyclists refer to as "fitness" is as dangerous as chasing the exudate of the poppy or the creamy filling of the Oreo.”
“Hashish is the resinous exudate of the cannabis or hemp plant (Cannabis sativa).”
“Opium is the brown, gummy exudate of the incised, unripe seedpod of the opium poppy.”
“These insects produce a sugary exudate (honey dew) which is an important food source for a number of native birds like the kaka (Nestor meridionalis VU).”
“I have a cast-iron stomach that can cope admirably with wound exudate conversations whilst eating brie and cranberry sandwiches, but if that's just made you grimace and you are of a delicate and refined disposition you may want to stop reading this blog post right this minute because I know it's not my usual fare.”
“I feel the strong tiny threads, sticky with some sort of glandular arachnoid exudate, stretched taut against my forehead and cheeks.”
“• Gum tragacanth, an exudate from various species of Astralagus shrubs”
Simon & Schuster: On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘exudate’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Victorious Verbs
exudate, agglutinate, permeate, penetrate, attenuate, aggregate, emaciate, concatenate, exonerate, castigate, promulgate, obstinate and 2 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Professional Scrabble Lexicon (TWL)
A myriad of game-changing words every Scrabble addict must have in his arsenal.
Keep in mind that these are all tried-and-true feasibly playable words selected for their handiness, i.e...paragon, pignora, ganef, suttee, origan, ohia, aioli, abasement, lehr, mho, tallow, harelike and 843 more...
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lanklenmot's Words
ineluctable, prelapsarian, bien pensant, prospero, preternatural, gratifying, iconoclast, cineast, persnickety, tumescent, galvanize, pap and 887 more...
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An Unspecific Gathering
Recently added to be organized (perhaps) later.
metaeuphoria, metaeuphoria, protologism, neologism, contextual, commingling, meta, euphoria, elucidation, disambiguation, hypertextual, kenspeckle and 136 more...
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Of Ants and Men
While reading Orwell's non-fiction, I ran across his 68 year-old review of this book, which by focusing on the most lurid aspects piqued my interest, and so I checked it out of my library.
myrmecology, scoliid, stirp, huntress, ingluvial, social stomach, annectent, mycelium, formicary, hypha, fungus garden, hypogeic and 20 more...
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Words Related to Zombie Attacks
rive, bludgeon, apocalypse, maw, behead, amputate, hack, hew, lacerate, rend, rip, sunder and 64 more...
Tweets
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reesetee *gags* Dec 12, 2008
yarb During its larval period ... it is fed and licked by its nurses, receives gifts from them, and in return mechanically donates rewards of exudates.
- Caryl P. Haskins, Of Ants and Men, 1939, p. 65 Dec 11, 2008