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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
moult .
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Examples
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All crustaceans are enclosed in a protective exoskeleton made of chitin, which must be shed (or "moulted") to accommodate growth.
Crustacea 2008
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All crustaceans are enclosed in a protective exoskeleton made of chitin, which must be shed (or "moulted") to accommodate growth.
Arthropoda 2007
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All crustaceans are enclosed in a protective exoskeleton made of chitin, which must be shed (or "moulted") to accommodate growth.
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Unlike the exoskeleton of a regular crustacean, it is never moulted.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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In any case, it was easy to love the evidence in my hands: the emargination of the sixth primary of chiffchaffs, the blue-gray of the moulted greater coverts of first-year great tits, the reddish iris color of adult dunnocks, the fat keels of sedge warblers.
A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009
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Somehow our napkins had moulted lapfuls of lint all over our Very Important Meeting outfits.
Boutique Breakfast 2009
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Somehow our napkins had moulted lapfuls of lint all over our Very Important Meeting outfits.
Boutique Breakfast 2009
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The last time she moulted, producers gathered up the old layer and used it to craft these simple yet sturdy structures.
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Somehow our napkins had moulted lapfuls of lint all over our Very Important Meeting outfits.
Boutique Breakfast 2009
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Unlike the exoskeleton of a regular crustacean, it is never moulted.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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