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Exuviae   Listen
noun
Exuviae  n. pl.  
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.






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"Exuviae" Quotes from Famous Books



... should form some estimate, from what occurs within our reach, of the effects produced in these deposits by the vast number of organized beings that must people them, the deposits of vegetable matter, and the exuviae, of animals. Such discussion would, however, be in a considerable degree purely conjectural, and we therefore shall not enter into it. It is sufficient to say, that formations analogous to those which the elevation of the continents has exposed to our view, must be now taking ...
— The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 • Various



Words linked to "Exuviae" :   body covering



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