MOULT


Meaning of MOULT in English

verb

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

As they grow they moult several times.

By August the male will have begun to moult and will become almost indistinguishable from the female.

No, he had been moulting, like a bird.

One day she carried a tall moulting sunflower into the Staff Room.

Periodically, they moult their thin transparent skins, changing shape as they do so.

The dragonfly nymphs may take up to 2 years before they moult into the adult form.

The larva moults to give rise to the four-legged nymph, which, after five more days, becomes the adult mite.

You can not but feel that Aisling O'Sullivan, moulting magnificently like a sick eagle, is having a high old time.

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