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MOULTING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does moulting mean?
• MOULTING (noun)
The noun MOULTING has 1 sense:
1. periodic shedding of the cuticle in arthropods or the outer skin in reptiles
Familiarity information: MOULTING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Periodic shedding of the cuticle in arthropods or the outer skin in reptiles
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Synonyms:
ecdysis; molt; molting; moult; moulting
Hypernyms ("moulting" is a kind of...):
shedding; sloughing (the process whereby something is shed)
Derivation:
moult (cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers)
Context examples
Yet here you bring me to a shred of a man, peaky and ill-nourished, with eyes like a moulting owl, who must needs, forsooth, take counsel with his mother ere he buckle sword to girdle.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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