exfoliación

Spanish

Noun

exfoliación f (plural exfoliaciones)

1. exfoliation (state of being exfoliated)
2. (botany) exfoliation (loss of leaves from a plant)
3. (dermatology) exfoliation (removal of a layer of skin)
4. (mineralogy) cleavage (tendency of a crystal to split along certain planes)

Further reading

• “exfoliación”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10