Third person singular present tense of exuviate; sheds or sloughs off an outer covering.
From 'exuviate' + '-s' (third person singular present marker), standard English verb conjugation.
As an organism exuviates, the discarded covering begins its own ecosystem—fungi colonize it, insects shelter in it, making shed skins as important ecologically as the creature that left them behind.
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