sloughing
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]sloughing
- present participle and gerund of slough
Noun
[edit]sloughing (plural sloughings)
- Something sloughed off.
- 2012, Frank Spellman, Revonna Bieber, Environmental Health and Science Desk Reference, page 831:
- As the zoogleal slime reenters the wastewater, excess solids and waste products are stripped off the media as sloughings. These sloughings are transported with the wastewater flow to a settling tank for removal.
- (zoology) The act of casting off the skin or shell; ecdysis.
- 1995, Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History: Volume 38:
- If all sloughings were successfully recorded, which is not certain since rattle segments were not color-coded during this study, the interval between events averaged 246.1 days (1.5 sloughings per snake per year).