資料來源 : pyDict
蛻皮,脫殼脫下的殼
資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Exuviate \Ex*u"vi*ate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Exuviated}, p. pr.
& vb. n. {Exuviating}.][From {Exuviae}.] (Zo["o]l.)
To shed an old covering or condition preliminary to taking on
a new one; to molt.
There is reason to suppose that very old crayfish do
not exuviate every year. --Huxley.
資料來源 : WordNet®
exuviate
v : cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers; "out dog sheds every
Spring" [syn: {shed}, {molt}, {moult}, {slough}]