Molt
verb
When an animal loses its old feathers, fur, skin or shell to replace it with a new one.
The snake will molt its skin several times a year
Often appears as...
- birds molt
- snakes molt
noun
The process of shedding old feathers, fur, skin or shell.
During the molt, you will notice a lot of loose feathers around your bird's cage
Often appears as...
- undergo a molt
- during the molt
verb
When an animal loses its old feathers, fur, skin or shell to replace it with a new one.
The snake will molt its skin several times a year
Often appears as...
- birds molt
- snakes molt
noun
The process of shedding old feathers, fur, skin or shell.
During the molt, you will notice a lot of loose feathers around your bird's cage
Often appears as...
- undergo a molt
- during the molt
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Cyclical Renewal
Molt signifies a recurring process for renewal in animals, hinting at natural cycles.
Birds molt annually to renew their plumage.
Pro Tip 2/3Natural Phenomenon
Molt is often used to describe a natural, biological process, not an artificial one.
Watching a caterpillar molt into a chrysalis is fascinating.
Pro Tip 3/3Specific Creatures
Not all animals molt, so it's mainly used with birds, reptiles, and arthropods.
Did you know some spiders also molt?
Pro Tip 1/3Cyclical Renewal
Molt signifies a recurring process for renewal in animals, hinting at natural cycles.
Birds molt annually to renew their plumage.
Pro Tip 2/3Natural Phenomenon
Molt is often used to describe a natural, biological process, not an artificial one.
Watching a caterpillar molt into a chrysalis is fascinating.
Pro Tip 3/3Specific Creatures
Not all animals molt, so it's mainly used with birds, reptiles, and arthropods.
Did you know some spiders also molt?
Pro Tip 1/3Cyclical Renewal
Molt signifies a recurring process for renewal in animals, hinting at natural cycles.
Birds molt annually to renew their plumage.
Pro Tip 2/3Natural Phenomenon
Molt is often used to describe a natural, biological process, not an artificial one.
Watching a caterpillar molt into a chrysalis is fascinating.
Pro Tip 3/3Specific Creatures
Not all animals molt, so it's mainly used with birds, reptiles, and arthropods.
Did you know some spiders also molt?
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Video examples
Oil Inside Gulf Crabs...
out along Mississippi's Coast and haul in special crab traps this is the front line and finding out what the oil is doing to blue crabs to try and find larval crabs particularly blue crabs they come in from offshore and when they're ready to molt they'll be looking
Video examples
Soft-Shell Crabs Created...
habitat loss and pollution wild populations of blue crabs have plummeted over the last decade spelling disaster for the crabs and those rely on cloudy for a living Watson's theory is that crabs pulled from the wild population could be induced to molt year round
Video examples
Baby Orphan Fox Rescue PIPE...
when fox cubs are born they are deaf blind and completely reliant on their mothers for everything so without a mother their care falls into the hands of the team when cubs first come into the world they have short black fur which they will begin to molt around
Video examples
The weird and wonderful...
At the same time, a second skin layer called the pupal cuticle forms underneath the first. One more molt exposes the hard exterior of the pupa. Besides the imaginal discs, only a few tissues are spared, including parts of the respiratory system,
Video examples
The Secret to Mastering...
It's disheartening and disorienting. Now what? My data show we do two things during our time in the wilderness. First, we shed mindset, routines, habits. Like animals who molt, we cast off parts of our personality. Jeffrey Spar, who has OCD,
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 69 PIPE...
he's just doing a little bit of feather maintenance the shifting his feathers around running his ball through them as well it's important for birds constantly to be maintaining their feathers and I usually molt up to three times a year so
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 4 PIPE...
a spider it's it's old skin so it melted now it's very important many different animals are chair molt we see a lizard's molting we see snakes molting we see lots of different insects molting and then of course the arachnids the spiders
Video examples
Cicadas: The dormant...
you've spent the last 17 years of your life walking, eating and sleeping above a dormant army of insects. These are the cicadas. Every 17 years, billions of them emerge from the ground to do three molt, mate and die.
Video examples
The Secret World of...
puts on an instantaneous growth spurt while the new exoskeleton is still supple after an hour or two it will harden and no further growth will occur until the next molt
Video examples
How life came to land -...
Sure, they have to molt to grow, but that doesn't seem to pose a problem. The insects even invented the first wings, and conquered the skies.
Video examples
Oil Inside Gulf Crabs...
out along Mississippi's Coast and haul in special crab traps this is the front line and finding out what the oil is doing to blue crabs to try and find larval crabs particularly blue crabs they come in from offshore and when they're ready to molt they'll be looking
Video examples
Soft-Shell Crabs Created...
habitat loss and pollution wild populations of blue crabs have plummeted over the last decade spelling disaster for the crabs and those rely on cloudy for a living Watson's theory is that crabs pulled from the wild population could be induced to molt year round
Video examples
Baby Orphan Fox Rescue PIPE...
when fox cubs are born they are deaf blind and completely reliant on their mothers for everything so without a mother their care falls into the hands of the team when cubs first come into the world they have short black fur which they will begin to molt around
Video examples
The weird and wonderful...
At the same time, a second skin layer called the pupal cuticle forms underneath the first. One more molt exposes the hard exterior of the pupa. Besides the imaginal discs, only a few tissues are spared, including parts of the respiratory system,
Video examples
The Secret to Mastering...
It's disheartening and disorienting. Now what? My data show we do two things during our time in the wilderness. First, we shed mindset, routines, habits. Like animals who molt, we cast off parts of our personality. Jeffrey Spar, who has OCD,
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 69 PIPE...
he's just doing a little bit of feather maintenance the shifting his feathers around running his ball through them as well it's important for birds constantly to be maintaining their feathers and I usually molt up to three times a year so
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 4 PIPE...
a spider it's it's old skin so it melted now it's very important many different animals are chair molt we see a lizard's molting we see snakes molting we see lots of different insects molting and then of course the arachnids the spiders
Video examples
Cicadas: The dormant...
you've spent the last 17 years of your life walking, eating and sleeping above a dormant army of insects. These are the cicadas. Every 17 years, billions of them emerge from the ground to do three molt, mate and die.
Video examples
The Secret World of...
puts on an instantaneous growth spurt while the new exoskeleton is still supple after an hour or two it will harden and no further growth will occur until the next molt
Video examples
How life came to land -...
Sure, they have to molt to grow, but that doesn't seem to pose a problem. The insects even invented the first wings, and conquered the skies.
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Quote examples
Doris Kearns Goodwin
American Historian
There are but a handful of times in the history of our country when there occurs a transformation so remarkable that a molt seems to take place, and an altered country begins to emerge.
Quote examples
Doris Kearns Goodwin
American Historian
There are but a handful of times in the history of our country when there occurs a transformation so remarkable that a molt seems to take place, and an altered country begins to emerge.
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