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A dragonfly in its radical final moult, metamorphosing from an aquatic nymph to a winged adult.. In biology, moulting (British English), or molting (American English), also known as sloughing, shedding, or in many invertebrates, ecdysis, is a process by which an animal casts off parts of its body to serve some beneficial purpose, either at specific times of the year, or at specific points in ...
"Woodshedding", or shedding, is a term commonly used to describe the act of practicing some endeavor, usually in private, to improve one's proficiency in performing it.It is typically used by musicians to mean rehearsing a difficult passage repeatedly, until it can be performed flawlessly. [1]
Shedding game, a family of card games where the objective is to get rid of one's hand first; Natural hair loss in cats and dogs; Viral shedding which is the release of virus progeny following successful reproduction during a host-cell infection; Vaccine shedding an anti-vaccination myth about the release of infective virus following vaccination
In the fields of horticulture and botany, the term deciduous (/ d ɪ ˈ s ɪ dʒ u. ə s /) [1] [2] means "falling off at maturity" [3] and "tending to fall off", [4] in reference to trees and shrubs that seasonally shed leaves, usually in the autumn; to the shedding of petals, after flowering; and to the shedding of ripe fruit.
The Shed (arts center), a cultural center in New York City; Shed End, the south stand of the Stamford Bridge football stadium in London; Koussevitzky Music Shed, also known as "the Shed", a music venue at Tanglewood ‘The Shed’, a standing Terrace (stadium) at Kingsholm Stadium, the home ground of Gloucester Rugby
Marcescence is the withering and persistence of plant organs that normally are shed, and is a term most commonly applied to plant leaves. [1] [2] ...
Viral shedding is the expulsion and release of virus progeny following successful reproduction during a host cell infection. Once replication has been completed and the host cell is exhausted of all resources in making viral progeny, the viruses may begin to leave the cell by several methods .
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...