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noun-plural. The cast-off skins or coverings of various organisms, such as the shells of crabs or the external coverings of the larvae and nymphs of insects.

n. Plural form of exuvia.

n. The coverings of an animal that have been shed or cast off, particularly the molted exoskeletons of arthropods.

n. Roman military term for weaponry and equipment stripped from the person of a foe; booty.

noun-plural. Cast skins, shells, or coverings of animals; any parts of animals which are shed or cast off, as the skins of snakes, the shells of lobsters, etc.

noun-plural. The fossil shells and other remains which animals have left in the strata of the earth.

Cast-off skins, shells, or other coverings of animals; any parts of animals which are shed or sloughed off, as the skins of caterpillars, the shells of lobsters, the cuticle of snakes, the feathers of birds.

Skins of animals artificially removed and prepared for preservation.

n. cast-off skins or coverings of various organisms during ecdysis

"If I understand what was being said correctly, then "exuviae" classical meaning - armour stripped from a dead enemy, or skin taken from or shed by an animal is correctly a plural term that is used as a singular, in the same way that English speakers say "I take off my clothes" and never "I take off my cloth"."

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