meaning of exfoliate
1. To separate and come off in scales or laminae, as pieces of carious bone or of bark.
2. To split into scales, especially to become converted into scales at the result of heat or decomposition.
3. To remove scales, laminae, or splinters from the surface of.
4. grow by producing or unfolding leaves; "plants
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