Ecdysis is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 114 anagrams from letters in ecdysis (cdeissy).
1850-55; New Latin Greek ékdysis a getting out, equivalent to ek- ec- + dý(ein) to enter + -sis -sis
After the fifth ecdysis the Nauplius appendages undergo a rapid atrophy.
At the third ecdysis several new features appear in the cephalic region, which becomes more prominent in the succeeding stages.
After the second ecdysis the marking and colouring only undergo change with respect to the eye-spots.
The first ecdysis occurred after 5–6 days, the length of the caterpillars being from nine to ten millimeters.
At the second ecdysis there appears at its side a rudimentary shell-gland.
Both larv were active, but the moulting one had now completed its ecdysis.
Four days later, after the fourth ecdysis, the dimorphism becomes a polymorphism.
In the higher Lepidoptera the pupa is immovable, and the imago, after the ecdysis of the pupal cuticle, must emerge.
ecdysis, ek′di-sis, n. the act of casting off an integument, as in serpents.
The first ecdysis occurs after five days, and with this there appears quite suddenly a very complicated pattern.
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