Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or process of molting; molt.
- noun The molting season.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or process by which an animal molts; especially, the periodic shedding of the cuticle in arthropods or the outer skin in reptiles, or feathers in birds.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
molt .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun periodic shedding of the cuticle in arthropods or the outer skin in reptiles
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Examples
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Ecdysone therefore is sometimes called molting hormone.
The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963
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Once a year, for the duration of their lives, penguins lose and replace every single feather on their bodies in a process called molting.
The Great Penguin Rescue Dyan DeNapoli 2010
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This process of casting off the old skin is called molting, and is repeated four times during the one, two, three or more weeks of larval life.
Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases Rennie Wilbur Doane
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Soft shell crabs are crabs that are molting, which is when the hard shell of the crab grows about 30 percent.
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It's called molting and it is very important. is becoming a very common bird in our area.
chron.com Chronicle 2009
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They seem to keep molting, meaning they're most likely growing.
childrens' books, spiders, mithras, martian halloween badger 2005
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Faced with few alternatives to reduce the oppressive debt burden incurred through the 2008 Fording Coal acquisition, Teck continues to slough off gold assets like some kind of molting serpent.
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From seeing the need for general digital publishing, to changing the business to focus on a gap in the ecology, to expanding outwards to the creation of standalone software and a retail channel, to the building of a document business, and now to the building of a universal media-application platform ... each "molting" of the business required a clear commitment to the next generation of growth ... betting big on that inevitability which cannot yet be proven.
Adobe Blogs 2008
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Fossil groupings of up to 1000 trilobites suggest they were social creatures, at least while molting.
Social Trilobites 2009
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Fossil groupings of up to 1000 trilobites suggest they were social creatures, at least while molting.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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