Exuviae

Definition: Exuviae

1. Cast-off skins or coverings of various organisms during ecdysis.

Date "exuviae" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references)

Etymology: Exuviae \Ex*u"vi*[ae]\, plural noun. [Latin expression, from exuere to draw out or off, to pull off.]. (references)

"Exuviae" is a common misspelling or typo for: exuviate, exuviated.

Synonyms within Context: Exuviae

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Excretion	Saliva, spittle, rheum; ptyalism, salivation, catarrh; diarrhoea; ejecta, egesta, sputa; excreta; lava; exuviae; (uncleanness).
Uncleanness	Hogwash; ditchwater, dishwater, bilgewater; rinsings, cheeseparings; sweepings; (useless refuse); offscourings, outscourings; off scum; caput mortuum, residuum, sprue, fecula, clinker, draff; scurf, scurfiness; exuviae, morphea; fur, furfur; dandruff, tartar.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

English words defined with "exuviae": Exuvia, Exuviable. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Exuviae" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Latin (booty/ hides pelt, clothing, clothing/ spoils, dress, spoils).

Use in Literature: Exuviae

Title	Author	Quote
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	Its throes will heave our exuviae from their graves
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Modern Translation: Exuviae

Language		Translations for "exuviae"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		蛻 (exuviae of insects or reptiles). (various references)

Pig Latin		exuviaeay.(various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Exuviae

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-u-v-x"
	-1 letter: exuvia.
	-3 letters: eaux, eave, uvea.
	-4 letters: ave, axe, eau, eve, vau, vee, vex, via, vie.
	-5 letters: ae, ai, ax, ex, xi, xu.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-i-u-v-x"
	+1 letter: exuviate.
	+2 letters: exudative, exuviated, exuviates.
	+3 letters: exhaustive.
	+5 letters: exhaustively.
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