secrete

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Species known as Anthony's poison arrow frog and the Phantasmal poison frog are among those that secrete the toxin onto their skin.

From BBC • Feb. 15, 2026

These creatures, more commonly known as violet snails, are distinguished by their striking purple shell and the delicate bubble raft they secrete to stay afloat in the open ocean.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 23, 2025

Her team pays attention to other stress markers, such as that they secrete mucus when biologically stressed.

From Salon • May 13, 2025

In particular, goblet cells -- cup-shaped cells that secrete mucus -- expressed those genes only in the presence of ILC2s, a kind of immune cell.

From Science Daily • Nov. 21, 2024

Maybe: they secrete chemicals the way insects do, or perhaps the movements of their eyestalks is a form of language similar to the dance of a bee.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson