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Wordnet 3.0

VERB (1)

1. cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers;
- Example: "our dog sheds every Spring"
[syn: shed, molt, exuviate, moult, slough]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Exuviate \Ex*u"vi*ate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Exuviated, p. pr. & vb. n. Exuviating.][From Exuviae.] (Zo["o]l.) To she [1913 Webster]d 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. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

exuviate v 1: cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers; "our dog sheds every Spring" [syn: shed, molt, exuviate, moult, slough]