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- English Word Exuvia Definition n. sing. of Exuviae.
- English Word Exuviability Definition Capability of shedding the skin periodically.
- English Word Exuviable Definition Capable of being cast off in the form of exuviae.
- English Word Exuviae Definition Cast skins, shells, or coverings of animals; any parts of animals which are shed or cast off, as the skins of snakes, the shells of lobsters, etc.
- English Word Exuviae Definition The fossil shells and other remains which animals have left in the strata of the earth.
- English Word Exuvial Definition Of or pertaining to exuviae.
- English Word Exuviate Definition To shed an old covering or condition preliminary to taking on a new one; to molt.
- English Word Exuviated Definition of Exuviate
- English Word Exuviating Definition of Exuviate
- English Word Exuviation Definition The rejecting or casting off of some part, more particularly, the outer cuticular layer, as the shells of crustaceans, skins of snakes, etc.; molting; ecdysis.
- English Word Ey Definition An island.
- English Word Ey Definition See Egg.
- English Word Ey Definition An interj. of wonder or inquiry.
- English Word Ey"ries Definition of Eyry
- English Word Eyalet Definition Formerly, one of the administrative divisions or provinces of the Ottoman Empire; -- now called a vilayet.
- English Word Eyas Definition A nesting or unfledged bird; in falconry, a young hawk from the nest, not able to prey for itself.
- English Word Eyas Definition Unfledged, or newly fledged.
- English Word Eyasmusket Definition An unfledged or young male sparrow hawk.
- English Word Eye Definition A brood; as, an eye of pheasants.
- English Word Eye Definition The organ of sight or vision. In man, and the vertebrates generally, it is properly the movable ball or globe in the orbit, but the term often includes the adjacent parts. In most invertebrates the years are immovable ocelli, or compound eyes made up of numerous ocelli. See Ocellus.