exuvium

noun

1. Synonym of exuviae.

   “1654 Simeon Ashe Loe here th' exuvium of that heavenly soul, Who living did by's words and works controule The power of Sin and Satan ; and whose breath Redeem'd poor souls from darkness, and from death, And by bis pious Doctrine did convince The sly Temptations of that ayery Prince.”

   “1679 Sir Thomas Browne in a letter to his son Edward I have sent you by Mrs. Alice Peirce, a skinne of the palme of a woemans hand, cast of at the end of a fever, or in the declination thereof; I called it exuvium palmæ muliebris, the Latin word being exuvia in the plurall, butt I named it exuvium, or exuvia in the singular number.”

   “This gentleman, we learn, kept a crayfish alive in a vase for two years, and found that during each year its exuvium was shed but once.”

   “1939 Paul Random Henson et al.: US Dept. of Agriculture. Technical Bulletin 715 Alfalfa Experiments at Stoneville, Miss. Meconium and exuvium contained within host skin, which remains nearly intact within host puparium except when destroyed by unusual circumstances”