Emunctory: Definition and part of speech

Emunctory

  1. n. Any organ or part of the body (as the kidneys, skin, etc.,) which serves to carry off excrementitious or waste matter.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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