| VERB | body | molt, shed, exuviate, moult, slough | cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers |
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| NOUN | process | molt, molting, moult, moulting, ecdysis | periodic shedding of the cuticle in arthropods or the outer skin in reptiles |
| Sounds | mow'lt | |
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| Rhymes | bolt ... volt: 9 rhymes with owlt... | |
| Meaning | Periodic shedding of the cuticle in arthropods or the outer skin in reptiles. | |
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| Synonyms | molting, moult, moulting, ecdysis | |
| Broader | shedding, sloughing | The process whereby something is shed |
| Spanish | muda | |
| Catalan | ècdisi, muda | |
| Verbs | molt | cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers |
| Meaning | cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s | |
| Synonyms | shed, exuviate, moult, slough | |
| Narrower | desquamate, peel off | peel off in scales |
| Broader | shed, cast, cast off, shake off, throw, throw off, throw away, drop | Get rid of |
| Spanish | cambiar, mudar, pelechar | |
| Catalan | canviar, mudar | |
| Nouns | molt, molting | periodic shedding of the cuticle in arthropods or the outer skin in reptiles |
| molter | an animal (especially birds and arthropods and reptiles) that periodically shed their outer layer (feathers or cuticle or skin or hair) | |
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