Past tense of exuviate; shed or sloughed off an outer covering.
From 'exuviate' + '-ed' (past tense marker), following regular English verb conjugation patterns.
Every time a cicada has exuviated—leaving that papery husk stuck to a tree—it's actually left behind a perfect 3D record of its final form before transformation, a biological time capsule.
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