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How to use moult in a sentence

12 example sentences · noun, verb

Moult means the process of shedding or losing a covering of fur, feathers or skin etc. Example: “Some birds change colour during their winter moult.”

Examples of moult by meaning

nounThe process of shedding or losing a covering of fur, feathers or skin etc.

  • Some birds change colour during their winter moult.

verbTo undergo the process of shedding or losing a covering of hair or fur, feathers, skin, horns, etc, and replacing it...

  • Birds moult periodically.
  • The engorged nymphae were collected on the 2nd August, 1910, and moulted into adults on the 19th September, 1910.1911, Report of the Director of Veterinary Research, page 212
  • With the personnel changes at Oxford, Reading could moult into a new centre for Wittgenstein studies, which also included John Preston and Max de Gaynesford .2022, Christoph C. Pfisterer, Nicole Rathgeb, Eva Schmidt, Wittgenstein and Beyond: Essays in Honour of Hans-Johann Glock, page 1994

More sentences with moult

  • The two documented examples of telson abnormalities are on juvenile moults (Fig. 2a, b).2022, Russell D. C. Bicknell et al., “Applying Records of Extant and Extinct Horseshoe Crab Abnormalities to Xiphosurid Conservation”, in…. From the entry telson
  • Despite these ecological factors, the complete post-juvenile moult also appears to have a phylogenetic background.2020, Lukas Jenni, Raffael Winkler, Moult and Ageing of European Passerines, page 84. From the entry post-juvenile
  • The third stage occurs when the crays moult into miniature adults.2012, Robert B. McCormack, A Guide to Australia's Spiny Freshwater Crayfish, page 47. From the entry cray
  • E.C.—Have you tried any remedies for the Goldfinch “stuck in the moult”?1909 November 13, G. E. Weston, “[British Birds, Mules and Hybrids. Answered by G. E. Weston.] A Trio.”, in Cage Birds & Bird World: The…. From the entry hand-wash
  • The calcein stain was retained over an annual cycle comprising multiple moults, demonstrating that pterocardiac ossicles retain chronological information.2015 August 27, “Direct Age Determination of a Subtropical Freshwater Crayfish (Redclaw, Cherax quadricarinatus ) Using Ossicular Growth…. From the entry pterocardiac
  • 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. From the entry exuviate
  • Lengthening of the basiflagellum was achieved by the addition of two annuli per moult, generated by division of the basal annulus (meriston).2009 March, Dorit Hockman, Mike D. Picker, Klaus-Dieter Klass, Leonie Pretorius, “Postembryonic development of the unique antenna of…. From the entry basiflagellum
  • It appears that the fraterculine alcids of the Pacific all have a complete postnuptial moult and only a partial prenuptial moult as the other alcids (cf.1946, Handlingar, page 122. From the entry fraterculine

Meaning of moult

  1. noun The process of shedding or losing a covering of fur, feathers or skin etc.
  2. noun The skin or feathers cast off during the process of moulting.
  3. verb To undergo the process of shedding or losing a covering of hair or fur, feathers, skin, horns, etc, and replacing it with a fresh one; to change by moulting.

Full definition of moult

Questions about moult in a sentence

How do you use moult in a sentence?
Moult is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Some birds change colour during their winter moult.”
What is a short sentence with moult?
“Birds moult periodically.”
What does moult mean?
Moult means the process of shedding or losing a covering of fur, feathers or skin etc.

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