moult in English

noun

[məʊlt]

periodical shedding (of horns, skins, feathers, etc.) to make way for new growth (also molt)

Use "moult" in a sentence

1. As they grow they moult several times.

2. Wouldn't it be all tight to moult tight here?

3. Finches start to moult at around twelve weeks of age.

4. It feeds soon after each moult, which is essential for hardening the integument.

5. The course of the moult is modelled using a logistic regression analysis.

6. Analoga moult into the megalopae 130 days after hatching (Efford, 1970)

7. Mature Christmas Island red crabs probably moult only onceayear, as their growth rate slows.

8. Periodically, they moult their thin transparent skins, changing shape as they do so.

9. Eleven families of birds, including loons, grebes and most waterfowl, have this moult strategy.

10. Possibly they are birds which have failed to breed successfully and have assembled here to moult.

11. He was going to block up the mouth of the cave so that he could moult in secret.

12. By August the male will have begun to moult and will become almost indistinguishable from the female.

13. Her tameness drops away like a spring moult, and her primitive survival instincts supplant everything else.

14. The dragonfly nymphs may take up to 2 years before they moult into the adult form.

15. These plates are not moulted; however, like all ecdysozoans, the barnacle itself will still moult its cuticle.

16. This gull takes three years to reach its breeding plumage; its appearance changes with each fall moult.

17. You should make moult treatment, especially for armpit so that the dress on the bride could show the brilliant effect.

18. There they stay for about a fortnight until they have completed their first moult and can fend for themselves.

19. An old crab grew restless. Finding himself stiff all over, he knew it was time for him to moult his shell.

20. The female starts to moult her primaries before her mate inAccipiter nisus, Accipiter gentilis and apparently some other species.

21. Whipscorpions are also capable of regeneration: if they lose a leg, they grow another one after the next moult.

22. The Christmas Island red crabs moult their shells regularly during their early growth phases to match their increasing body size.

23. The external changes during growth are comparatively slight and consist mainly of an increase in size at each moult.

24. If an austerity diet is given at the wrong time the birds will not pick up enough for their nuptial moult and your breeding will suffer.

25. The have flower, leaf, red, far see as arrow such as moult, ... the root skin fleshy, categories, but centerless pulse darfur 30%-50%.

26. PWDs have a single-layered coat that does not shed (see Moult), and therefore their presence is tolerated well among many people who suffer from dog allergies.

27. They also moult more or less continuously from juvenile through to adult plumage, so can be very variable at any time "in between".

28. In the fall the loon (Colymbus glacialis) came, as usual, to moult and bathe in the pond, making the woods ring with his wild laughter before I had risen.

29. The catalytic oxidation ability of 13 metal ion-exchanged montmorillonites are investigated in oxidative removal of the sulfides which are the main pollutant in the moult and alkali swell waste water.

30. Ecoutons Robert Wace : Taillefer qui moult bien Cantoit Sur un roncin qui tost aloit Devant eux s'en aloit cantant De Carlemaigne et de Rolant Et d'Olivier et des vassaus Qui morurent en Rainscevaus

31. Also being readied for the modern locust fighter's armoury is a class of products known as Insect Growth Regulators, or IGRs, which influence the ability of hoppers to moult and grow properly.

32. Orders Thysanura (the true Bristletails, with three bristles, including the silverfish) and Diplura (the two-pronged Bristletails), subclass Apterygota ‘Jumping Bristletails moult 8 to 10 times before reaching sexual maturity, which may take up to …