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Meaning of "moults"
Moult (noun): The process by which animals shed old feathers, hair, skin, or exoskeletons to make way for new growth
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- third-person singular simple present indicative form of moult
- plural of Moult
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The nymph moults three times.
The development of the male involves three moults.
The stoat moults twice a year.
They are also known to eat their own moults.
Hemideina femorata moults up to six times.
It moults and scratches.
A crab is vulnerable to attack after it moults as it has no shell.
A bed bug moults once with each stage of development.
Or a great layer who moults easily.
A decline in consumption of carbohydrates was seen at the time of first and second moults.
Juveniles then go through a series of moults before reaching maturity.
The cuckoos show what is called saltatory or transilient wing moults.
The nymphs go through four instar moults before becoming an imago.
That will remain affixed to the animal for multiple moults.
This develops either by a series of moults or undergoes metamorphosis to the adult form.
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There are four moults.
For breeding the bird moults to a black to dark grey with white spots.
During this period the larva moults four times.
The Kishu Inu moults twice a year and then has quite significant hair loss.
The nymphs proceed through about a dozen moults as they grow.
Adults moults between July and September.
I see she moults.
Once the adult stage is reached caligid copepods do not undergo additional moults.
There is no true metamorphosis but after about three moults a fully grown adult is present.
The larval development takes around four months and includes four moults.
The larvae grow through a series of four or five moults and enter the pupal stage.
It moults twice a year, during spring and autumn.
Females acquire their distinctive spiky appearance through additional moults as well.
After about eighteen months the bird moults and becomes a darker shade and has less spots.
These flies will cause damage at the time of the moults of scorpion.
The herd that moults together, itches together.
This bird is distinguished from other species because it moults three times a year.
The jackal moults twice a year, in spring and in autumn.
The larvae develop into juveniles which go through a number of moults before becoming adult.
Several zoeal moults are followed by the final larval stage, the megalopa.
The unit will then naturally fall off when the bird next moults.
In addition, while a nymph moults it never enters a pupal stage.
The Airedale Terrier is not subject to seasonal moults.
The post-larva later moults into the adult form.
It needs surprisingly little attention as it is ' self cleaning ' and rarely moults.
A few hours later, the prelarva moults into a larva.
The larval growth rate is also temperature-dependent, as is the number of moults.
Few nymphs die and after the first moults it 's a very easy species.
The larvae are small and cream colored, and there are four moults.
In another week it moults and assumes the appearance of a scarabaeid larva - the scarabaeidoid stage.
The gonopods develop gradually from walking legs through successive moults until reproductive maturity.
The two first moults occurred in the egg, which does not normally hatch spontaneously.
Nymphs resemble small adults, and go through a series of moults as they grow.
There are two moults every year, one in the spring and one in the fall.
A scorpion 's developmental progress is measured in instars how many moults it has undergone.
