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molting

[ US /ˈmoʊɫtɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. periodic shedding of the cuticle in arthropods or the outer skin in reptiles

How To Use molting In A Sentence

  • He is also probably quite ratty at this time because he is moulting.
  • Young fish, young crabs and molting crabs have lost shelter and refuge from their predators.
  • Each time the caterpillar grows bigger, it sheds its skin in a process called molting.
  • For the those of you who don't know about the moulting, shitting, barking, licking, drooling beast that's staying at my house for two weeks, you can learn more about her here .
  • Soft shell crabs are crabs that are molting, which is when the hard shell of the crab grows about 30 percent. Serious Eats: New York
  • Once a year, for the duration of their lives, penguins lose and replace every single feather on their bodies in a process called molting. The Great Penguin Rescue
  • They seem to keep molting, meaning they're most likely growing. Childrens' books, spiders, mithras, martian halloween
  • Faced with few alternatives to reduce the oppressive debt burden incurred through the 2008 Fording Coal acquisition, Teck continues to slough off gold assets like some kind of molting serpent. Fool.com: The Motley Fool
  • When the lobster grows, it undergoes a process called molting, when the animal sheds its old exoskeleton and grows a new, larger one.
  • The molting style of isopods provides the final problem for the interpretation of fossil isopods.
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