exudate

Example Sentences

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In return, the plant roots produce an exudate that feeds the fungi.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 7, 2022

She developed a shark repellent from an exudate of flatfish called the Red Sea Moses sole and taught sharks, once thought to be untrainable, to perform whole sequences of tasks.

From New York Times • Feb. 25, 2015

He thinks about "the lovely turquoise exudate, electrical lichen," that forms around the poles of his car batteries.

From Time Magazine Archive

He believes that: > The soldiers, acting as nurses to the larvae, suffuse them with their exudate, which prevents the development of more unnecessary soldiers.

From Time Magazine Archive

On examination there is tenderness and swelling in one flank and the uterus becomes fixed and immovable in the exudate as if embedded in plaster of Paris.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" by Various