SLOUGHING

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The process whereby something is shed

Synonyms:

shedding; sloughing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("sloughing" is a kind of...):

biological process; organic process (a process occurring in living organisms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sloughing"):

abscission (shedding of flowers and leaves and fruit following formation of scar tissue in a plant)

ecdysis; molt; molting; moult; moulting (periodic shedding of the cuticle in arthropods or the outer skin in reptiles)

Derivation:

slough (cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers)

-ing form of the verb slough