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Ecdysis vs. Molt — What's the Difference?

Ecdysis vs. Molt — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Ecdysis and Molt

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Ecdysis

Ecdysis is the moulting of the cuticle in many invertebrates of the clade Ecdysozoa. Since the cuticle of these animals typically forms a largely inelastic exoskeleton, it is shed during growth and a new, larger covering is formed.

Molt

To shed part or all of a coat or an outer covering, such as feathers, cuticle, or skin, which is then replaced by a new growth.

Ecdysis

The shedding of an outer integument or layer of skin, as by insects, crustaceans, and snakes; molting.

Molt

To shed or cast off (a bodily covering).

Ecdysis

The shedding of an outer layer of skin in snakes and certain other animals; moulting
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Molt

The act or process of molting.

Ecdysis

The shedding of an exoskeleton, as in insects and crustaceans.

Molt

The material cast off during molting.

Ecdysis

The act of shedding, or casting off, an outer cuticular layer, as in the case of serpents, lobsters, etc.; a coming out; as, the ecdysis of the pupa from its shell; exuviation.

Molt

Standard spelling of moult

Ecdysis

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

Molt

To shed or cast the hair, feathers, skin, horns, or the like, as an animal or a bird.

Molt

To cast, as the hair, skin, feathers, or the like; to shed.

Molt

The act or process of changing the feathers, hair, skin, etc.; molting.

Molt

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

Molt

Cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers;
Out dog sheds every Spring

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