cam·​ou·​flage

Definition/ Sentence

1.        Disguising especially of military equipment or installations with paint or nets

• The man wore camouflage to hide from the criminal.

Camouflage Verb:

1.        To disguise by camouflage (transitive verb)

• The white dogs fur acts as camouflage in the snow.

2.        To practice camouflage (intransitive verb)

Camouflage Adjective:

1.        Made in colors or patterns typical of camouflage

• She used a camouflage sweatshirt.

Molted, molting, molts

Definition/ Sentence

1.        To shed hair, feathers, shell, horns, or an outer layer periodically (intransitive verb)

• Horses molt twice a year.

2.        to cast off (an outer covering) periodically (transitive verb)

• A spider molts its covering as it grows.

Molting (noun)

1.        the act or process of molting

Definition/ Sentence

1.        a plant or animal or plant or animal product that can be grown and harvested extensively for profit or subsistence

• On my free time, I go to an apple crop.

2.        the product or yield of something formed together

• The ice crop is cold.

3.        the stock or handle of a whip

• Rosie cut crop the stock.

Crop (verb)

Cropped; cropping

Transitive verb

1.        to remove the upper or outer parts of

• Lucie crops the edge of the photo.

2.        To cause (land) a bear to crop

• Mary planned to crop another 40 acres.

Intransitive verb

1.        To appear unexpectedly or casually

Problems tend to crop up daily.

meta·​mor·​pho·​sis

(plural- metamorphoses)

Definition/ Sentence

1.        change of physical form, structure, or substance especially by supernatural means

• The metamorphosis of humans into animals supernaturally.

2.        a typically marked and more or less abrupt developmental change in the form or structure of an animal

• The metamorphosis of caterpillars into butterflies.

lar·​va

(plural- larvae also larvas)

1.        the immature, wingless, and often wormlike feeding form that hatches from the egg of many insects, alters chiefly in size while passing through several molts, and is finally transformed into a pupa or chrysalis

2.        the early form of an animal