moult

noun · verbA2

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

moultsmolt

1.
The process of shedding or losing a covering of fur, feathers or skin etc.
Some birds change colour during their winter moult.
Đồng nghĩa: ecdysis, moulting
2.
The skin or feathers cast off during the process of moulting.
Đồng nghĩa: exuvia

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

moults

V_ing/Gerund

moulting

V_ed/pp

moultedmolt

1.
(intransitive)To shed or lose a covering of hair or fur, feathers, skin, horns, etc, and replace it with a fresh one.
Đồng nghĩa: shed
2.
(transitive)To shed in such a manner.

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Đồng nghĩa

ecdysismoulting exuvia shed slough

Cùng gốc / liên quan

postmoultpremoultcatastrophic moult

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Nguồn gốc từ

ine-pro From Middle English mouten, from Old English *mutian (attested in bemutian, “to exchange for”), from Latin mūtō (to (re)move, change, vary, mutate, exchange, abandon). mute mutate. The unetymological ⟨l⟩ was introduced into the spelling by mistakenly assuming a French origin with -l- as in fault and vault;