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Exuviae

noun
1.
Cast-off skins or coverings of various organisms during ecdysis.





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... P. erythrorhynchus; for, after the breeding- season, these horny crests are shed, like horns from the heads of stags, and the shore of an island in a lake in Nevada was found covered with these curious exuviae. (77. Mr. D.G. Elliot, in 'Proc. Zool. Soc.' ...
— The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex • Charles Darwin


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