Definition of Moultings

1. moulting [n] - See also: moulting

Lexicographical Neighbors of Moultings

moulds
mouldwarp
mouldwarps
mouldy
moulinet
moulinets
moulins
mouls
moult
moulted
moulten
moulter
moulters
moulting
moultings
moults
moun
mounanaite
mounch
mounched
mounching
mound-bird
mound bird
mound builder
mound over
moundbird
moundbirds
moundbuilder

Literary usage of Moultings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1833)
"number of moultings. With the exception of a small number, in which the changes of the skin exercise a trifling influence on their primitive form, ..."

2. Summary of the Principal Chinese Treatises Upon the Culture of the Mulberry by Stanislas Julien (1838)
"The greater part of the Spring silk worms have four moultings, all the others have but three. The inhabitants of the country of Youe express the idea ..."

3. Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1837)
"... its only change consisting in a series of moultings of the outer envelope, attended merely by an increase of size, and not by the acquisition of new ..."

4. Insect Architecture by James Rennie (1830)
"The intervals at which the four moultings follow each other depend much on ... The period of the moultings is also influenced by the temperature in which ..."

5. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1833)
"number of moultings. With the exception of a small number, in which the changes of the skin exercise a trifling influence on their primitive form, ..."

6. Summary of the Principal Chinese Treatises Upon the Culture of the Mulberry by Stanislas Julien (1838)
"The greater part of the Spring silk worms have four moultings, all the others have but three. The inhabitants of the country of Youe express the idea ..."

7. Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1837)
"... its only change consisting in a series of moultings of the outer envelope, attended merely by an increase of size, and not by the acquisition of new ..."

8. Insect Architecture by James Rennie (1830)
"The intervals at which the four moultings follow each other depend much on ... The period of the moultings is also influenced by the temperature in which ..."

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