exuviate
verb (used with or without object)
to cast off or shed (exuviae); molt.
exuviation
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a word derived from
exuviate.
Example Sentences
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Like the integuments of the body, and unlike the valves of the capitulum, these calcified plates are thrown off at each exuviation.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
After the defective shell had subsisted eighty-six days, its tenant meantime feeding readily, the desired event took place in a new exuviation on 23d June.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 433 Volume 17, New Series, April 17, 1852 by Robert Chambers
About a month after this exuviation the animal perished accidentally, having been two years and eight months under examination.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 433 Volume 17, New Series, April 17, 1852 by Robert Chambers
It undergoes three moults, each time altering its figure, until at the third exuviation it has become enclosed in a bivalve shell, and has acquired a second eye.
From Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained by H. W. (Henry William) Lee
This was the same animal, which had performed exuviation, and extricated itself from the old shell during the night.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 433 Volume 17, New Series, April 17, 1852 by Robert Chambers
