Having had the outer layer removed or stripped away; showing signs of having shed or peeled off surface material.
Past tense and adjective form of 'exfoliate,' describing something that has undergone the exfoliation process.
Geologists use 'exfoliated' to describe how granite rocks naturally split into layers as ice forms in tiny cracks and expands—the rock essentially exfoliates itself without human help.
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