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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being exserted.
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Examples
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The fact being incontestable, we must evidently admit that the exsertion of the organ is rendered possible only by the expansion of the tracheal vesicles.
The Life of the Bee Maurice Maeterlinck 1905
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A prolonged flight must first expand his two great tracheal sacs; these enormous receptacles being gorged on air will throw back the lower part of the abdomen, and permit the exsertion of the organ.
The Life of the Bee Maurice Maeterlinck 1905
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From the foregoing facts I think we must admit that there exists a perfect gradation in fertility between species which when crossed are quite fertile (as in Rhododendron, Calceolaria, &c.), and indeed in an extraordinary degree fertile (as in Crinum), and those species which never produce offspring, but which by certain effects (as the exsertion of the pollen-tube) evince their alliance.
The Foundations of the Origin of Species Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844 Charles Darwin 1845
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