Moulting

Definition: Moulting

Moulting

Noun

1. Periodic shedding of the cuticle in arthropods or the outer skin in reptiles.

Date "moulting" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1843. (references)

Synonyms: Moulting

Synonyms: ecdysis (n), molt (n), molting (n), moult (n). (additional references)

Synonyms by domain: moulted (food & agriculture, biology & biotechnologyfood & agriculture, biology & biotechnology).

Crosswords: Moulting

Specialty definitions using "moulting": Birds. (references)

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	Moulting. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Young Paris was, excuse the expression, in the process of moulting.
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	Our moulting season, like that of the fowls, must be a crisis in our lives.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Moulting" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 73.08% of the time. "Moulting" is used about 26 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	73.08%	19	80,337
Adjective (general or positive)	23.08%	6	143,867
Noun (proper)	3.85%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	26	N/A

Language		Translations for "moulting"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		蜕变 (molt, Molted, molting, Moulted). (various references)

Danish		faeldning (moult). (various references)

Dutch		rui (moult). (various references)

Finnish		sulkasato (moult). (various references)

French		mue larvaire, mue (Molt, moult). (various references)

German		Mauser (Molt). (various references)

Greek		αλλαγή του πτερώματος (moult). (various references)

Hebrew		� שירת � וצות. (various references)

Italian		muta (molting, pack, shedding, wet suit), muda (Molt, moult). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		休み (absence, holiday, recess, respite, rest, suspension, vacation). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		やすみ (absence, holiday, recess, respite, rest, suspension, vacation). (various references)

Manx		tilgey (abort, cast, cast off, casting, chuck, discharge, disgorge, ejection, fling, hurl, launch; throwing, miscarriage, miscarry, misconception; found, pitch, plunge, pot, precipitate, precipitation, project, projection, shedding, shoot, sling, throw, toss, toss up, toss up coin, tossing, void, vomit, vomiting). (various references)

Pig Latin		oultingmay

Spanish		muda (change, change of clothing, Molt, moult, shedding). (various references)

Swedish		ruggning (moult). (various references)

Turkish		tüy dökme (exuviation, Molt, molting, moult), deri değiştirme (Molt, molting, moult, sloughing). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "g-i-l-m-n-o-t-u"
	-1 letter: louting, molting.
	-2 letters: gomuti, gonium, luting, moulin, muling, muting, outing, tiglon, toling, ultimo.
	-3 letters: glint, glout, gluon, guilt, ingot, lingo, linum, lungi, mogul, moult, mount, mungo, muton, notum, onium, tigon, ungot, unlit, until.
	-4 letters: gilt, glim, glom, glum, glut, gout, iglu, into, limn, limo, ling, lino, lint, lion, litu, loin, long, loti, lout, lung.
	Words containing the letters "g-i-l-m-n-o-t-u"
	+2 letters: modulating, outsmiling, turmoiling.
	+3 letters: formulating, ligamentous, monologuist, outblooming, outclimbing, outfumbling, outmuscling.
	+4 letters: automobiling, demodulating, immunologist, magniloquent, monologuists, multimegaton, multipronged, numerologist, promulgating, promulgation.
	+5 letters: immunologists, multimegatons, multiregional, numerologists, promulgations, reformulating, somersaulting, telecommuting, troublemaking.
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