moulting's Usage Examples:

After moulting, an arthropod is described as teneral, a callow; it is "fresh", pale and soft-bodied.

The islet is an important moulting area for an abundant variety of birds such as: the mute swan, the great.

their abdomen is a distinctive feature; other markings disappear with moultings but the white tail remains to adulthood.

After hatching, the nymphs feed and undergo a series of 13 moultings (or ecdysis).

The shedding of scales is called ecdysis, or, in normal usage moulting or sloughing.

not all fluoresce strongly under ultraviolet illumination, except after moulting.

As the time for moulting approaches, as much as possible of the exocuticle material.

supported by morphological characters, and includes all animals that grow by ecdysis, moulting their exoskeleton.

These feathers would be lost through moulting as the animal aged, and replaced with more modern-style barbed feathers.

size (among Buthidae); most if not all fluoresce strongly under ultraviolet illumination, except after moulting.

the external part of the cuticle in a process called moulting or ecdysis.

Juveniles have broader buff feather edges, and tend to have looser, scruffier plumage, like moulting adults.

Both frogs and salamanders moult regularly and consume the skin, with some species moulting in pieces and others.

Synonyms:

shedding, ecdysis, molting, molt, moult, sloughing,