molting

How To Use molting In A Sentence

• He is also probably quite ratty at this time because he is moulting.
• Snyder and Mulder reported that exposure of Homarus americanus larvae to the cyclodiene pesticide heptachlor can cause a delay in molting.
• It is not long after this molting is complete that they start a second molt to acquire their alternate plumage.
• There is no clear evidence to differentiate encrustation prior to molting from postmortem encrustation on the external surface of carapaces.
• Maturation involves 7-8 molts, and molting continues into adulthood.
• Because of their ill-judged moulting they are quite featherless. CHAPTER XXXVI
• In general, healed injuries are considered to have resulted from trauma during molting or wounds by predatory attack.
• Ecdysone therefore is sometimes called molting hormone. The Human Brain
• The second clade includes arthropods and other molting animals: tardigrades, onychophorans, nematodes, nematomorphans, kinorhynchs, and priapulans.
• It was in April, I think: the dragonfly nymphs were molting by the river.