Like any arthropod encased in a rigid exoskeleton, a trilobite must periodically moult, or exuviate, in order to grow.
Source: wiktionary
Exuviate
//ɛkˈsuː.vɪ.eɪt//
Synonyms for "exuviate" (10 found)
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Translations
7 translations across 5 languages.
Finnish
2 entries- luoda kuorensa verb (to shed or cast off a covering)
- luoda nahkansa verb (to shed or cast off a covering)
Hungarian
1 entries- vedlik verb (to shed or cast off a covering)
Portuguese
1 entries- mudar verb (to shed or cast off a covering)
Russian
2 entries- линя́ть verb (to shed or cast off a covering)
- сбра́сывать ко́жу verb (to shed or cast off a covering)
Spanish
1 entries- mudar verb (to shed or cast off a covering)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
Although multicultural societies are difficult to manage, they need not become a political nightmare and might even become exciting if we exuviate our long traditional preoccupation with a culturally homogeneous and tightly structured polity and allow them instead to intimate their own appropriate institutional forms, modes of governance, and moral and political virtues.
Source: wiktionary
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