exocrine

1. 1.

   of or relating to exocrine glands or their secretions

   Antonymsendocrine

Other forms of exocrine

plural

exocrines·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about exocrine

What does exocrine mean?

exocrine means "a gland that secretes externally through a duct". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in exocrine?

exocrine has 3 syllables: ex-o-crine. The stress falls on "ex".

What is another word for exocrine?

Close synonyms include exocrine gland, duct gland. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of exocrine?

The recorded antonyms are endocrine.

Is exocrine a common word?

exocrine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.