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Meanings of moulting in English

Russian
линька
Portuguese
muda
Spanish
muda
Catalan
muda

Process by which an animal routinely casts off a part of its body.

      линька
      Usage of moulting in English
      1
      But I didn't know that it was moulting when people grow bald.
      Citizen Bird: Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginne...
      2
      Out on the sea-ice, there were Adelie and Emperor penguins; the latter moulting.
      The Home of the Blizzard / Being the Story of the Australasian A...
      3
      The lower record of January was caused by some pullets moulting.
      Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry
      4
      Night brooded here like a dyspeptic raven with moulting tail-feathers and ragged wings.
      Flames
      5
      Any live factory can always be seen moulting year after year.
      Crowds / A Moving-Picture of Democracy
      6
      Dank walls rose between towers that were topped with cones of moulting shingle.
      A Time of Gifts
      7
      This poor creature was moulting; its feathers were rumpled and disordered; its tail ragged.
      Frank Mildmay; Or, The Naval Officer
      8
      Youth was on the point, may the reader pardon us the word, of moulting.
      Les Misérables
      9
      We procured also some caccawees which were then moulting and assembled in immense flocks.
      The Journey to the Polar Sea
      10
      It will not eat when moulting, nor in cold weather.
      Through the Brazilian Wilderness
      11
      September sees a great change in the old crows, too, Their moulting is over.
      Wild Animals I Have Known
      12
      Outside the killzone ships and drones spun away inertly, moulting charred flakes of nulfoam.
      The Naked God
      13
      I shall never be old except when I am moulting.
      Among the Farmyard People
      14
      I am no moulting fowl, nor is this arrow a feather of my wing.
      The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish
      15
      They killed however two swans that were moulting, several cranes and many gray geese.
      The Journey to the Polar Sea
      16
      Which being the case, the next thing on their annual agenda is the moulting season.
      The Irish Times
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      Translations for moulting
      Portuguese
      muda
      Catalan
      muda
      Moulting through the time
      Moulting across language varieties
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