Definition of Exuveae
||Ex*u"vi*æ, n. pl. [L., fr.
exuere to draw out or off, to pull off.] 1.
(Zoöl) Cast skins, shells, or coverings of animals;
any parts of animals which are shed or cast off, as the skins of
snakes, the shells of lobsters, etc.
2. (Geol.) The fossil shells and other
remains which animals have left in the strata of the earth.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- The coverings of an animal that have been shed or cast off, particularly the molted exoskeletons of arthropods.
- Roman military term for weaponry and equipment stripped from the person of a foe; booty.
- Related to or like exuviae.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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