Shedding

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Specifically, of the cotton plant, the dropping of young bolls. Shedding results to some extent from defect of pollination, but often from a deep cultivation at early flowering time, encouraging a growth of ‘weed.’
  • noun. A collection of sheds, or sheds collectively.
  • noun. A parting; separation; a branching off, as of two roads or a water-shed; hence, the angle or place where two roads meet.
  • noun. A pouring out or spilling; effusion: as, the shedding of blood.
  • noun. The act of letting fall, casting off, or parting with something, as a plant its seed when ripe, or a covering husk: as, the shedding of wheat.
  • noun. That which is shed, cast off, or exuviated; a cast or exuvium.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of shedding, separating, or casting off or out.
  • noun. That which is shed, or cast off.
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  • verb. Present participle of shed.
  • noun. The act of shedding, separating, or casting off.
  • noun. That which is shed, or cast off.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. loss of bits of outer skin by peeling or shedding or coming off in scales
  • noun. the process whereby something is shed
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