MOLTING

Meaning of MOLTING in English

p.pr. & ·vb.n. of moult.

Webster English vocab. Английский словарь Webster. 2012

MOLTING — Shedding or casting off of an animal's outer layer or covering and formation of its replacement. Regulated by hormones, molting …
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MOLTING — (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Moult
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MOLTING — ( p. pr. & vb. n. ) of Moult
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
MOLTING — n. Shedding or casting off of an animal's outer layer or covering and formation of its replacement. Regulated by hormones, …
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MUTA — n molt (= process of molting)
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TANNING — noun Date: 15th century the art or process by which a skin is tanned, a browning of the skin especially …
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PROTHORACIC GLAND — noun Date: 1887 one of a pair of thoracic endocrine organs in some insects that control molting
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EXUVIATION — noun Date: 1839 the process of molting
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ECDYSONE — also ecdyson noun Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary ecdysis + hormone Date: 1956 any of several arthropod hormones that in insects …
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ECDYSIS — noun (plural ecdyses) Etymology: New Latin, from Greek ekdysis act of getting out, from ekdyein to strip, from ex- + …
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NYMPH — I In Greek mythology , any of a large class of minor female divinities. Nymphs were usually associated with features …
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MEWS — Row of stables and coach houses with living quarters above, built behind houses, especially in 17th–18th-century London. Most have been …
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HORMONE
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ARACHNID — Any member of the class Arachnida, primarily carnivorous arthropod s having a well-developed head, a hard external skeleton, and four …
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SICK — I. ˈsik adjective ( usually -er/-est ) Etymology: Middle English sik, sek, seke, from Old English sēoc; akin to Middle …
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MOLT — I. verb or moult ˈmōlt ( -ed/-ing/-s ) Etymology: alteration of Middle English mouten, from (assumed) Old English mūtian to …
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MEW — I. ˈmyü noun also mew gull ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English mǣw; akin to Old Saxon …
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BROKEN — I. ˈbrōkən sometimes -k ə ŋ adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Old English brocen, from past participle of brecan to …
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PROTHORACIC GLAND — noun : one of a pair of thoracic endocrine organs in some insects that control molting
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ECDYSONE — ˈekdə̇ˌsōn noun ( -s ) Etymology: ecdys is + horm one : any of several arthropod hormones that in insects …
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UNPRIME — “+ adjective of a fur : not prime an unprime fur taken when the animal was molting and growing a …
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TENERAL — ˈtenərəl adjective Etymology: Latin tener tender, young + English -al — more at tender : of, relating to, or constituting …
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MOLTER — noun or moult·er ˈmōltə(r) ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English mowtare, from mowtan, mouten to molt + -are, -er -er …
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ECDYSIS — ˈekdəsə̇s noun ( plural ecdy·ses -əˌsēz) Etymology: New Latin, from Greek ekdysis act of getting out, escape, from ekdyein to …
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MOULT — (n.) The act or process of changing the feathers, hair, skin, etc.; molting.
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EXUVIATION — (n.) The rejecting or casting off of some part, more particularly, the outer cuticular layer, as the shells of crustaceans, …
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MOLT — — molter , n. /mohlt/ , v.i. 1. (of birds, insects, reptiles, etc.) to cast or shed the feathers, skin, …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
REGENERATION — in biology, the process by which some organisms replace or restore lost or amputated body parts. Organisms differ markedly in …
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ONCOPOD — collective name for three groups of animals: Onychophora and Tardigrada, which are free-living forms, and Pentastomida, which are parasitic. Onychophora …
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MOLT — also spelled Moult, biological process of molting (moulting)i.e., the shedding or casting off of an outer layer or covering and …
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COAT — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a coat of paint (= a layer of paint that is put on something …
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