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Exuviae

noun
1.
Cast-off skins or coverings of various organisms during ecdysis.





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... it decently, a respect which Moslems always show even to the exuviae of the body, as hair and nail parings. Amongst Guebres the latter were collected and carried to some mountain. The practice was intensified by fear of demons or wizards getting possession ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 1 • Richard F. Burton
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... of the male. So it is with a thin horny crest on the beak of one of the pelicans, P. erythrorhynchus; for, after the breeding- season, these horny crests are shed, like horns from the heads of stags, and the shore of an island in a lake in Nevada was found covered with these curious exuviae. (77. Mr. D.G. Elliot, in 'Proc. Zool. ...
— The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex • Charles Darwin
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Words linked to "Exuviae" :   exuvial, body covering


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