Dictionary entry

Exuviate

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Ex‐u″vi‐ate (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p.Exuviated, p. pr. & vb. n.Exuviating.] (�) [From Exuviae.] (Zoöl.) To shed an old covering or condition preliminary to taking on a new one; to molt.

There is reason to suppose that very old crayfish do not exuviate every year. Huxley.