How To Use Exuviae In A Sentence
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All specimens are exuviae, with thin and fragile carapaces and abdomens and fragmentary bodies and appendages.
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Just out of exuviae, wings still folded, photo OK but not great.
From Twitter 04-20-2010
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While the body of the poem often stands in for the body of the poet, acting as a surrogate for the experience of such a biography, the body of the text in this case has gone missing, leaving behind only the exuviae of the work itself — the set of afterthoughts found in annotations and digressions, allegedly presented after the fact by experts, who have prepared this text for scholastic discussion.
Quick Review 05 : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
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Its throes will heave our exuviae from their graves.
Walden
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Within 48 hours, we washed the samples, removing inorganic material and invertebrate cases and exuviae, and sieved them through 1 mm mesh.
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SNAIL'S TALES: Parade of cicada exuviae skip to main
Parade of cicada exuviae
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Emerged adult Axarus and shed pupal exuviae were removed from the trap daily.
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Again, at each epoch, the whole earth was no doubt, as now, more or less the theatre of life, and as the successive generations of each species died, their exuviae and preservable parts would be deposited over every portion of the then existing seas and oceans, which we have reason for supposing to have been more, rather than less, extensive than at present.
On the law which has regulated the introduction of new species
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Organic constituents, such as comminuted shells, and silicious and calcareous exuviae of infusorial animals and plants, are sometimes found mingled in considerable quantities with mineral sands.
The Earth as Modified by Human Action
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Now, throughout the greater part of this long series of stratified rocks are scattered, sometimes very abundantly, multitudes of organic remains, the fossilized exuviae of animals and plants which lived and died while the mud of which the rocks are formed was yet soft ooze, and could receive and bury them.
Essays
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Pellicles: the exuviae or cast larval skins of many insects: in Coccidae more especially applied to the hardened larval skin attached to the puparia of Diaspinae.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
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In short, he imitated the serpents, who cast off their exuviae, that, being stripped of their old age, they may gather new strength.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2
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The rarity of human intrusion was evidenced by the mazes of rabbit-runs, the feathers of shy birds, the exuviae of reptiles; as also by the well-worn paths of squirrels down the sides of trunks, and thence horizontally away.
Two on a Tower
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All specimens are exuviae, with thin and fragile carapaces and abdomens and fragmentary bodies and appendages.
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I saw these exuviae* of cicadas last nite underneath one of the branches of a large pine tree I have in my backyard.
Parade of cicada exuviae
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If I understand what was being said correctly, then "exuviae" classical meaning - armour stripped from a dead enemy, or skin taken from or shed by an animal is correctly a plural term that is used as a singular, in the same way that English speakers say "I take off my clothes" and never "I take off my cloth".
Parade of cicada exuviae
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Whether the retainment of exuviae is characteristic of the species is open to question.
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This assemblage, perhaps representing an accumulation of molted exuviae, was apparently preserved as the result of rapid burial by carbonate muds and silts during a storm event.
