Get the answer to the NYT Spelling Bee clue “Passageway for tears, bile, etc”, starting with the letters du.
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noun
- A bodily tube or vessel especially when carrying the secretion of a gland
- A pipe, tube, or channel that conveys a substance
- A pipe or tubular runway for carrying an electric power line, telephone cables, or other conductors
- A tube or elongated cavity (such as a xylem vessel) in plant tissue
- A layer (as in the atmosphere or the ocean) which occurs under usually abnormal conditions and in which radio or sound waves are confined to a restricted path
verb
- To enclose in a duct
- To convey (something, such as a gas) through a duct
noun
- A wide cloth adhesive tape originally designed for sealing joints in heating or air-conditioning ducts
noun
- A duct by which bile passes from the liver or gallbladder to the duodenum
noun
- A duct that receives and concentrates urine from the distal convoluted tubule of nephrons and discharges it into the renal pelvis
noun
- A duct through which semen is ejaculated
noun
- A duct leading from the pancreas and opening into the duodenum
noun
- A tube or passage serving especially or exclusively as an efferent duct of the testis and in the human male being made up of the epididymis, the vas deferens, and the ejaculatory duct
noun
- The main trunk of the system of lymphatic vessels that lies along the front of the spinal column and opens into the left subclavian vein
noun
- The duct of the mesonephros that persists in the female chiefly as part of a vestigial organ and in the male as the duct system leaving the testis and including the epididymis, vas deferens, seminal vesicle, and ejaculatory duct
This clue was used on February 10, 2025.