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Desquamate

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To remove the scales from, to scale; (less narrowly) to peel. transitive
  2. 2
    peel off in scales wordnet
  3. 3
    To come off in the form of scales, to scale. intransitive

Etymology

First attested in 1740; borrowed from Latin dēsquāmātus, perfect passive participle of dēsquāmō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from dē- (“off”) + squāma (“a scale”) + -ō (“verb-forming suffix”).

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