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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During every successive exuviation in this embryo state, they assume more and more of their perfect and established form.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 433 Volume 17, New Series, April 17, 1852 by Robert Chambers
These mutilations, however, are readily repaired; although, contrary to what was the common belief, the restoration takes place only at the next regular period of exuviation.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 433 Volume 17, New Series, April 17, 1852 by Robert Chambers
I may remark that one, or more commonly two or three branched filaments stand nearly in the centre of each circular line of exuviation or splitting.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
In 102 days it underwent exuviation, when it appeared again, perfect as before, with a shell of snowy white, and a little red speckling on the limbs.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 433 Volume 17, New Series, April 17, 1852 by Robert Chambers
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
