secretion
US/sɪˈkriːʃ(ə)n/
secretion noun: any substance that is secreted by an organism.
Noun (1)
secretion (countable and uncountable, plural secretions)
Noun (2)
secretion (plural secretions)
- The act of hiding something.
- Synonyms:
- secreting, spiriting away
secretion meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Telugu
secretion in Hindi
- secreted substance
- स्राव srāv
- act of secreting
- रिसना risnā, रिसाव risāv
secretion in Tamil
- சுரப்பு நீர், கழிவு, சுரப்பு, சுரத்தல், சுரந்த பொருள்
secretion in Bengali
- নিঃসরণ, ক্ষরণ
secretion in Telugu
- secretion
- స్రావము srāvamu
More languagesFewer languages
- secretion in Kannada
- ಉತ್ಪತ್ತಿಯಾದ ರಸ, ಬಚ್ಚಿಡುವಿಕೆ
- secretion in Sanskrit
- किट्ट kiṭṭa
- secretion in Nepali
- स्राव
- secretion in Arabic
- إِفْرَاز ʔifrāz, مُفْرَزَة mufraza
- secretion in Malay
- kumuh
- secretion in Indonesian
- sekret, sekresi
- secretion in Persian
- ترشح taraššoh
Examples of secretion in a sentence
- The bombardier beetle sprays acrid secretions to defend itself.
- This suggests that the CE increase induced by ADRP may also promote a more efficient lipoviroparticle secretion.
- Stimulation of MOR in the intestines reduces propulsatile and diminishes intestinal secretions.
Synonyms of secretion
Forms of secretion
| plural | secretions |
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Origin of secretion
(1646) From French sécrétion, from Latin sēcrētiō, sēcrētiōnem.
Words formed from secretion
Words that rhyme with secretion
- accretion
- completion
- venetian
- Grecian
- concretion
- deletion
- Lutetian
- Rhaetian
- excretion
- Phoenician
- bicompletion
- hyperdepletion
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Questions about secretion
- What does secretion mean?
- Secretion means any substance that is secreted by an organism.
- What is secretion in Hindi?
- Secretion in Hindi is स्राव (srāv), रिसना (risnā), रिसाव (risāv). See Secretion meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is secretion?
- Secretion is a noun.
- How do you pronounce secretion?
- Secretion is pronounced /sɪˈkriːʃ(ə)n/ (US).
- What is the plural of secretion?
- The plural of secretion is secretions.
Words near secretion in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: secretion (page history and authors); secretion (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); secretion (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); స్రావము (Telugu) (page history and authors); secretion (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); किट्ट (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); secretion (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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