Noah Webster
Exfoliate
EXFO'LIATE, verb intransitive [Latin exfolio; ex and folium, a leaf.]
In surgery and mineralogy, to separate and come off in scales, as pieces of carious bone; to scale off, as the lamins of a mineral.
EXFO'LIATE, verb intransitive [Latin exfolio; ex and folium, a leaf.]
In surgery and mineralogy, to separate and come off in scales, as pieces of carious bone; to scale off, as the lamins of a mineral.