单词 | molting |
释义 | molting (once / 79325 pages) n WORD FAMILY molting: moltings+/molt: molted, molter, molting, molts/molter: molters USAGE EXAMPLESThe outermost layer was shedding, like a molting cricket, brown slices curling up from the surface. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus(2003) In addition, after molting, it eats its own exoskeleton. Reuters(Nov 23, 2016) In them, molting snakes wrapped themselves around his body. Washington Post(Aug 30, 2016) n periodic shedding of the cuticle in arthropods or the outer skin in reptiles Syn|Hyper ecdysis, molt, moult, moulting shedding, sloughing the process whereby something is shed |
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