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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To shed, peel, or come off in scales. Used of skin.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To scale off; peel off; exfoliate; be shed, cast, or molted in the form of scales or flakes.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To shed or peel

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. (Med.) To peel off in the form of scales; to scale off, as the skin in certain diseases.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. peel off in scales

Etymologies

  1. Latin dēsquāmāre, dēsquāmāt- : dē-, de- + squāma, scale. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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