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Molt vs Moly - What's the difference?

molt | moly |

As a verb molt

is .

As a noun moly is

noise.

molt

English

Alternative forms

* moult (British English )

Verb

(en verb)
  • To shed hair, feathers, skin, horns etc. and replace it by a fresh layer.
  • To shed in such a manner.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The process of shedding or losing a covering of fur, feathers or skin etc.
  • Some birds change colour during their winter molt .
  • The skin or feathers cast off during the process of ing.
  • References

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    moly

    English

    Noun

    (molies)
  • A magic herb or plant used by .
  • *, II.4.1.iii:
  • *:It excels Homers moly , cures this, falling sickness, and almost all other infirmities.
  • * 1980 , Walter Shrewing, trans. Homer, The Odyssey , Oxford 1998, p.120:
  • So spoke the Radiant One; then gave me the magic herb, pulling it from the ground and showing me in what form it grew; its root was black, its flower milk-white. Its name among the gods is moly .
  • Any plant associated with the mythological moly, especially the European allium, .
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