9 letters · 19 points in Scrabble
verb spread by opening the leaves of
verb cast off in scales, laminae, or splinters
verb remove the surface, in scales or laminae
originFrom Late Latin exfoliō (“to strip of leaves”), from ex- (“out of”) + folium (“leaf”); compare effoliate and French exfolier.
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