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Definition of Exuvial
1. Adjective. Of or relating to the cast-off skins or cuticles of various animals.
Definition of Exuvial
1. a. Of or pertaining to exuviæ.
Definition of Exuvial
1. Adjective. Related to something sloughed off or stripped away. ¹
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Definition of Exuvial
1. exuvium [adj] - See also: exuvium
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exuvial
Literary usage of Exuvial
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1900)
"ment of the exuvial glands. These are unicellular hypodermal glands, usually
pear- shaped, with the smaller end prolonged into a tube which opens through a ..."
2. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1916)
"Its connection with exuvial customs (preserving parings of nails, clippings of
... sacrifices and exuvial fetiches. We have already hinted several times in ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1900)
"The time for ecdysis having arrived, the glands pour out their contents until
there is a thin layer of the exuvial fluid separating the old cuticula from ..."
4. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1862)
"The same may be said of the exuvial realm, •which is not unimportant in a cosmic
view, ... The exuvial realm is quite distinct from all the others, ..."
5. British Farmer's Magazine (1854)
"Without exuvial matters, the primitive earths afford no ground of fertility or
scope for manures. Another field, of a deep black loamy earth, ..."
6. International Catalogue of Scientific Literature by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1905)
"Tower, WL Observations on the structure of the exuvial glands and the formation
of the exuvial fluid in insects. Zool. Anz., Leipzig, 25, 1902, (466- 472). ..."
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