exfoliation

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ex=fo=li=a=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

exfoliation, n. [Cf. F. exfoliation.].

 The scaling off of a bone, a rock, or a mineral, etc.; the state of being exfoliated.  [1913 Webster]

ROGET THESAURUS

exfoliation

Divestment

N divestment, taking off, nudity, bareness, undress, dishabille, the altogether, nudation, denudation, decortication, depilation, excoriation, desquamation, molting, exfoliation, trichosis, divested, bare, naked, nude, undressed, undraped, denuded, exposed, in dishabille, bald, threadbare, ragged, callow, roofless, in a state of nature, in nature's garb, in the buff, in native buff, in birthday suit, in puris naturalibus, with nothing on, stark naked, stark raving naked, bald as a coot, bare as the back of one's hand, out at elbows, barefoot, bareback, barebacked, leafless, napless, hairless.