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verb-intransitive. To shed periodically part or all of a coat or an outer covering, such as feathers, cuticle, or skin, which is then replaced by a new growth.

v. To shed or cast off (a bodily covering).

n. The act or process of molting.

n. The material cast off during molting.

v. To shed hair, feathers, skin, horns etc. and replace it by a fresh layer.

v. To shed in such a manner.

n. The skin or feathers cast off during the process of molting.

imp. of melt.

verb-intransitive. To shed or cast the hair, feathers, skin, horns, or the like, as an animal or a bird.

v. To cast, as the hair, skin, feathers, or the like; to shed.

n. The act or process of changing the feathers, hair, skin, etc.; molting.

An obsolete preterit of melt.

To shed or cast, as feathers, hair, or skin; slough off: often used figuratively.

To cast or shed feathers, hair, skin, or the like; undergo or accomplish a molt; exuviate; mew. See the noun.

To be about to be cast off or shed, as plumage.

n. The act or process of shedding or casting any tegumentary, cuticular, or exoskeletal structures or appendages, as feathers, hair, skin, nails, horns, hoofs, claws, or shell; ecdysis; exuviation.

n. The period or time of molting.

v. cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers

n. periodic shedding of the cuticle in arthropods or the outer skin in reptiles

"The period between each molt is known as an instar."

moult   

molted    molting    molts   

shedding    sloughing   

melt   

shed    molting    cast    slough    mew    exuviate    throw   

melt   

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