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Exuviae   Listen
noun
Exuviae  n. pl.  
1.
(Zoöl.) Cast skins, shells, or coverings of animals; any parts of animals which are shed or cast off, as the skins of snakes, the shells of lobsters, etc.
2.
(Geol.) The fossil shells and other remains which animals have left in the strata of the earth.





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"Exuviae" Quotes from Famous Books



... perspiration, sweat; subation[obs3], exudation; diaphoresis; sewage; eccrinology[Med]. saliva, spittle, rheum; ptyalism[obs3], salivation, catarrh; diarrhoea; ejecta, egesta[Biol], sputa; excreta; lava; exuviae &c. (uncleanness) 653[Lat]. hemorrhage, bleeding; outpouring &c. (egress) 295. V. excrete &c. (eject) 297; emanate &c. ...
— Roget's Thesaurus
... generally washed, than of being curried with a currying-comb, or undergoing the operation of tattowing? The powers of nature are marvellous indeed, which can support their lives for years, under all the fifth and exuviae, ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 13 • Robert Kerr


Words linked to "Exuviae" :   exuvial


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