| 单词 | molt |
| 释义 | molt (once / 21929 pages) vn When an animal molts, it loses its feathers, fur, skin or maybe even outer skeleton. People don't molt, but plenty of animals do as a normal part of their life cycle. Despite the guarantees made by late night advertisements, once a human is bald, he's bald forever. Not so for many animals who routinely lose and gain hair, skin or feathers. Think of shedding dogs and snakes crawling out of their old skins. This is the process known as molting. Insects that molt lose their shells or wings, often a sign that they're entering a different part of their life cycle. WORD FAMILYmolt: molted, molter, molting, molts+/molter: molters/molting: moltings USAGE EXAMPLESThey are fed in the offseason to be in a “fat condition,” Kisak said, to allow them to molt and regrow healthy feathers. Washington Times(Dec 24, 2016) It was, in essence, the skin that had to be molted before his full ascension to the mainstream. New York Times(Nov 28, 2016) The outermost layer was shedding, like a molting cricket, brown slices curling up from the surface. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus(2003) 1v cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers Syn|Hypo|Hyper exuviate, moult, shed, slough desquamate, peel off peel off in scales cast, cast off, drop, shake off, shed, throw, throw away, throw off get rid of 2n periodic shedding of the cuticle in arthropods or the outer skin in reptiles Syn|Hyper ecdysis, molting, moult, moulting shedding, sloughing the process whereby something is shed |
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