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What does egest mean?

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Verb
  1. To excrete from the body (as feces, sweat &c)
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Some species egest a pellet containing large amounts of plant fiber, and many frugivorous birds egest seeds that were stripped of their pulp by the gizzard.
These animals serve important ecological roles in estuaries and other shallow waters as filter feeders that ingest what is in the water and egest processed materials to the substrate.
The material they egest in their faeces has a large surface area, providing easy access for decomposers such as bacteria and fungi.
The birds eat the white berries and then egest the seeds within them.
Gulls, although very numerous, consume and egest the smallest amounts of food and organic matter, but they are the smallest birds and their food is the most calorific of all.
As the empty inner core fills with accumulating dense matter, there will be feedback that communicates the time to egest the wastes from the interior of the Sun.

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