v. [f. as prec. + -ATE.] a. intr. To cast off or shed exuviæ. b. trans. To shed or cast off as exuviæ.
1855. Fraser’s Mag., LI. 542. Crabs of mature age and full size cease to exuviate.
1880. Huxley, Crayfish (ed. 6), i. 37. The young crayfish exuviate two or three times in the course of the first year.
b. 1856. Carpenter, Microsc. & Rev. (1891), 889. Even when the Entomostraca have attained their full growth, they continue to exuviate their shell.
1871. Huxley, Anat. Vert., 9. So much of the allantois as lies outside the walls of the body, is … exuviated.
