exuviation
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About a month after this exuviation the animal perished accidentally, having been two years and eight months under examination.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 433 Volume 17, New Series, April 17, 1852 by Chambers, Robert
This was the same animal, which had performed exuviation, and extricated itself from the old shell during the night.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 433 Volume 17, New Series, April 17, 1852 by Chambers, Robert
These mutilations, however, are readily repaired; although, contrary to what was the common belief, the restoration takes place only at the next regular period of exuviation.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 433 Volume 17, New Series, April 17, 1852 by Chambers, Robert
The most serious trial through which society can pass is encountered in the exuviation of its religious restraints.
From History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science by Draper, John William
These little glandular bodies, with the membrane formed by them, are cast off at each exuviation, and new glands formed on the crest of the fr�num underneath.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles
