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Belonging to effluvia.

To give forth effluvium. [R.] "An effluviating power." Boyle.

xcite envy; capable of awakening an ardent desire to posses or to resemble. One of most enviable of human beings. Macaulay. -- En"vi*a*ble*ness, n. -- En"vi*a*bly, adv.

n. sing. of Exuviæ.

Capability of shedding the skin periodically. Craig.

Capable of being cast off in the form of exuviæ.

Cast skins, shells, or coverings of animals; any parts of animals which are shed or cast off, as the skins of snakes, the shells of lobsters, etc.

Of or pertaining to exuviæ. "Exuvial layers." "Exuvial deposits."

taking on a new one; to molt. There is reason to suppose that very old crayfish do not exuviate every year. Huxley.

The rejecting or casting off of some part, more particularly, the outer cuticular layer, as the shells of crustaceans, skins of snakes, etc.; molting; ecdysis.

Belonging to rivers; growing or living in streams or ponds; as, a fluvial plant.

One who exlpains geological phenomena by the action of streams. [R.]

Belonging to rivers or streams; fluviatile. Johnson.

Belonging to rivers or streams; existing in or about rivers; produced by river action; fluvial; as, fluviatile starta, plants. Lyell.

The division of birds which includes the gulls and terns.

A large Asiatic crocodilian (Gavialis Gangeticus); -- called also nako, and Gangetic crocodile.

Not leviable; incapable of being imposed, or collected. [R.] Sir M. Hale.

The quality of being imperviable.

Not pervious; impervious. [R.] -- Im*per"vi*a*ble*ness, n. [R.]

Persistent portions of a calyx or corolla; also, leaves which do not disarticulate from the stem, and hence remain for a long time.