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exuviation

NOUN
shedding
Synonyms
STRONG
desquamation dropping exfoliating exuviating molting


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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 Chambers, Robert

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 Chambers, Robert

This last shell of 12th September subsisted until 29th March, being 197 days, when it was thrown off during another exuviation.'

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 433 Volume 17, New Series, April 17, 1852 by Chambers, Robert

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 Chambers, Robert

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 Darwin, Charles




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