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Webster 1913 Edition
Sloughing
Slough′ing
,Noun.
(Zool.)
The act of casting off the skin or shell, as do insects and crustaceans; ecdysis.
Definition 2024
sloughing
sloughing
English
Verb
sloughing
- present participle of slough
Noun
sloughing (plural sloughings)
- Something sloughed off.
- 2012, Frank Spellman, Revonna Bieber, Environmental Health and Science Desk Reference (page 831)
- As the zoogleal slime reenters the wastewater, excess solids and waste products are stripped off the media as sloughings. These sloughings are transported with the wastewater flow to a settling tank for removal.
- 2012, Frank Spellman, Revonna Bieber, Environmental Health and Science Desk Reference (page 831)
- (zoology) The act of casting off the skin or shell; ecdysis.
- 1995, Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History: Volume 38
- If all sloughings were successfully recorded, which is not certain since rattle segments were not color-coded during this study, the interval between events averaged 246.1 days (1.5 sloughings per snake per year).
- 1995, Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History: Volume 38