English Explanatory Dictionary

exuvium

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Synonym of exuviae.

Word forms

exuvium exuvia exuviums

Etymology

Perhaps from Latin exuvium, or perhaps an independent back-formation from exuvia, under the impression that exuvia is the plural of a Latin second-declension neuter noun exuvium, whereas exuvia is in reality the regularised first-declension singular of Latin exuviae.

Synonyms

exuviae
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