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Definition of Exuviates
1. exuviate [v] - See also: exuviate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exuviates
Literary usage of Exuviates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1905)
"Of such an animal as exuviates, as breaks its too narrow carapace and makes itself
a fresh one, under the new envelop we easily recognise the essential ..."
2. The Foundations of Science: Science and Hypothesis, The Value of Science by Henri Poincaré (1913)
"Just so with the animal that exuviates, that breaks its too narrow carapace and
makes itself a fresh one; under the new envelope one will recognize the ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The young animal exuviates about twenty times during the first two or three
months ; it is then full grown, and in every respect resembles the parent. ..."
4. The Value of Science by Henri Poincaré, George Bruce Halsted (1907)
"Just so with the animal that exuviates, that breaks its too narrow carapace and
makes itself a fresh one, under the new envelope one will recognize the ..."
5. On diseases of the skin: A System of Cutaneous Medicine by Erasmus Wilson (1868)
"On the scalp the detrita of the epidermis are furfuraceous, as is common in that
situation ; on the face and cheeks the cuticle exuviates in thin plates, ..."
6. The approaching end of the age viewed in the light of history, prophecy and by Henry Grattan Guinness (1882)
"Thus, the latter period of the common black caterpillar is twenty-one days, or
three weeks ; during this period it exuviates, or changes its skin three ..."
7. A History of the British Stalk-eyed Crustacea by Thomas Bell (1853)
"It is found concealed under stones at low-water mark; is of rather slow habits,
and exuviates much in the same manner as the common crab. ..."
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