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What does molted mean?

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  1. simple past tense and past participle of molt
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Cros also observed injured and recently molted nymphs of B. orientalis to be eaten by others of the same species.
This coat remains until the following summer or fall, when it is molted and replaced by a new one.
That suggests that our captive SY birds molted their juvenal flight feathers on a schedule similar to that of Tufted Puffins in the wild.
So valuable have these been considered that it has been a practice to pluck the live geese each year before they molted.
This plumage is worn for only a short time, as the body plumage and tail are molted during the last half of July and in August.
Newton estimated its temperature, in this position, to be more than two thousand times that of molted iron.

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