Definitionn. periodic shedding of the cuticle in arthropods or the outer skin in reptiles
Last update: September 3, 2015
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Pigeons usually moult a feather or two. [Please select]
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The newly hatched insect closely resembles the parent, and the wing-rudiments appear externally on the second and third thoracic segments; but before the final moult the nymph remains quiescent, taking no food. [Please select]
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But they eat and grow of course, and shed their skins, and after each moult they become darker in color. [Please select]
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They eat and grow and moult, and eat and grow and moult, until they are grown up. [Please select]
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But they hold up their spiny front legs and catch insects, and they grow and moult in the usual way. [Please select]
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[Illustration] Those larvæ had no wings at first, but the wings grew, and finally at the last moult they were full-sized. [Please select]
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But they eat and grow and moult like other larvæ until they are full-grown insects. [Please select]
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Of course, they grow and moult until they arrive at the adult form. [Please select]
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The wings of the larva do not grow at each moult like the wings of the grasshopper. [Please select]
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CHAPTER XX THE GREY LOCUST I have just witnessed a moving spectacle: the last moult of a locust; the emergence of the adult from its larval envelope. [Please select]
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Having the spiny weapons of the legs in mind, I imagined that those limbs would moult in scales and patches, or that the sheathing would rub off like a dead scarf-skin. [Please select]
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