SHEDDING as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • loss of bits of outer skin by peeling or shedding or coming off in scales
   Synonym(s)
   • desquamation (what does desquamation mean?)
   • peeling (what does peeling mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) shedding is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • organic phenomenon (what does organic phenomenon mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • peel off (what does peel off mean?)
   • peel (what does peel mean?)
   • flake off (what does flake off mean?)
   • flake (what does flake mean?)
   • desquamate (what does desquamate mean?)
   • peel off (what does peel off mean?)
2. Meaning
   • the process whereby something is shed
   Synonym(s)
   • sloughing (what does sloughing mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) shedding is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • organic process (what does organic process mean?)
   • biological process (what does biological process mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • abscission (what does abscission mean?)
   • molt (what does molt mean?)
   • molting (what does molting mean?)
   • moult (what does moult mean?)
   • moulting (what does moulting mean?)
   • ecdysis (what does ecdysis mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • shed (what does shed mean?)
   • molt (what does molt mean?)
   • exuviate (what does exuviate mean?)
   • moult (what does moult mean?)
   • slough (what does slough mean?)
   • shed (what does shed mean?)
   • molt (what does molt mean?)
   • exuviate (what does exuviate mean?)
   • moult (what does moult mean?)
   • slough (what does slough mean?)