exuviate

Exuviate: to cast the skin: to moult.

We may remark that other classes of animals exuviate in a similar manner to the crustaceans.

Antonyms: inertia, rest, stagnation, immobility, quiescence, repose. motionless, a. stationary, inert, stagnant, quiescent. motive, n. incentive, inducement, incitement. mottled, a. piebald, party-colored, spotted. mould, n. matrix, matrice; pattern, model; mouldiness, mildew, blight, smut, fungus. mould, v. form, shape, model, cast; knead. mouldy, a. musty, mildewed, fusty, decaying. moult, v. mew, exuviate. moulting, n. exuviation. mount, v. ascend; bestride. mountain, n. mount.

Associated words: conchology, conchologist, malacology, testaceous, cockled, mollusk, conchiferous, conchiform conchometer, conchometry, crustacean, exuvial, exuviate, exuviation, Loricata, bivalve, multivalve, univalve. shell, n. framework; bomb, torpedo, shrapnel, grenade. shell, v. hull, shuck, shale, enucleate; bombard, besiege. shellfish, n. pl.