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exuviates

exuviates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of exuviate.

Meaning of exuviate

Verb

exuviate (third-person singular simple present exuviates, present participle exuviating, simple past and past participle exuviated)

  1. (ambitransitive, rare) To shed or cast off a covering, especially a skin; to slough; to molt (moult).
    • Like any arthropod encased in a rigid exoskeleton, a trilobite must periodically moult, or exuviate, in order to grow.1996, Rolf Ludvigsen, chapter 4, in Life in Stone: A Natural History of British Columbia's Fossils, →ISBN, page 55
    Synonyms:
    moult, molt, slough

Questions about exuviates

What is exuviates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Exuviates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of exuviate.

Words near exuviates in the dictionary

  1. exuviable
  2. exuviae
  3. exuvial
  4. exuviate
  5. exuviated
  6. exuviates
  7. exuviating
  8. exuviation
  9. exuviations
  10. exuviotroph
  11. exuviotrophic

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