molt

Examples

• All

• Some change color: weasels, for example, molt to white, becoming winter ermines.

  Academic text (1991)

• The larval period, which includes three molts into successively larger individuals, takes one to three weeks.

  Academic text (1992)

• - I thought the molt was over.

  The Secret: Dare to Dream (2020)

• In Rhode Island and central and western Long Island Sound, egg production within one molt of legal size is now 95%.

  Academic text (1999)

• Could the chicks grow fast enough to fledge before their parents had to desert them to molt?

  Academic text (2008)

• Parents fattening for the molt would have to either desert their offspring before they were ready to fledge or die themselves.

  Academic text (2008)

• Tag retention through several molts is about 90% (Wickins et al., 1986).

  Academic text (1999)

• Adults and pups are segregated during the molt (Trukhin and Kosygin, 1988).

  Academic text (1997)

• Stage II and III larvae are also positively phototactic several hours before molting; post-molt they become negatively phototactic (Hadley, 1908).

  Academic text (1999)

• The bird underwent its annual molt, losing old feathers to make way for new ones.

Synonyms

S

shedding

vsmolt

3 3.4

Losing hair or leaves naturally from animals and plants

is the specific animal process of periodic outer covering loss for growth

M

molting

vsmolt

• Specialized

2 6.1

An animal sheds old skin, feathers, or shell to grow

is the same process but expressed as the verb form rather than the noun

E

ecdysis

vsmolt

• Specialized

9.9

A process animals like insects or snakes use to shed old skin to grow

is the general periodic shedding of outer coverings across many animals

Surface Forms

Etymology