moult

Object

• bird: Molting birds were sitting apart from the colony, looking forlorn.
• adult: They were joined by at least 3 molting adult Black Terns and a cracking adult White-winged Black Tern.
• season: The outer coat should be stripped at least twice a year during their molting seasons.
• period: Otters have a double coat of hair which they shed throughout the year rather than molting in a short molting period.
• process: Reports of mange in foxes often turn out to be simple hair loss due to the normal molting process which begins around April.
• time: This becomes even more important during the molting times.

Converse of object

• undergo: Meadow Pipits are reported to undergo a partial molt in the first three months of the year.

Preposition: into

• plumage: These, we decided, were Scarlet Tanagers, the former being a male molting into winter plumage.

Modifying Another Word

• twice: At this stage they will grow and molt twice reaching a length of 5mm.
• fully: The 4 youngsters my pair produced are getting on great and almost fully molted in to normal as expected.
• recently: My favorite choice is a Meadow Pipit that has recently molted.
• not: The wings are white: the feathers do not molt.
• once: Young spiders molt every few weeks, but once adult they usually molt about once a year.
• again: They remain inactive throughout the winter, but the animals then molt again and revert to the sexually active stage.

Adjective modifier

• annual: Seals carry out their annual molt at these sites.
• final: The larva's final molt is into a pupa, from which an adult emerges within a week.
• several: Like a crab, it went through several molts in its lifetime.
• first: At the first molt, the six legged larva turns into an eight legged nymph.
• next: Those affected birds which we were able to follow over time, grew normal feathers at the next molt.
• larval: Because of the large number of larval molts, when cast larval skins are seen they tend to exaggerate the extent of the infestation.