Last Updated：2025/11/20

Dictionary quizzes to help you remember vocabulary

(biology) The remains of the exoskeleton after any of the Ecdysozoa, such as Arthropoda, has sloughed, discarding its old integument and developing the new one.

音声機能が動作しない場合はこちらをご確認ください

See correct answer

exuvia

Edit Histories（0）

Source Word

exuvia

Noun

Japanese Meaning

脱皮により捨てられた旧い外骨格の残骸、特に昆虫やその他の節足動物などで見られるもの

What is this buttons?

After the cicada's final molt, the empty exuvia clung to the tree trunk like a tiny brown statue.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

セミが最後に脱皮したあと、空になった脱皮殻が木の幹に小さな茶色い像のようにくっついていた。

Details

Sense（1）

The exuvia or cast skin of insects, being exceedingly transparent, are well adapted for observation, as they exhibit the outward appearance of the little animal; among these we may reckon those of spiders and cimices, but particularly the forficula, or earwig, which is an elegant exuvia.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

Details

exuvia

（ plural ）

exuviae

（ plural ）

Details

exuvia

Dictionary quizzes to help you remember vocabulary

Login / Sign up

Download the app!

exuvia

Dictionary quizzes to help you remember vocabulary

Login / Sign up

Login

──── or ────

Sign up

──── or ────

Download the app!