nudation

From Latin nudatio, from nudare (“to make naked”), from nudus (“naked”). See nude.

nudation (countable and uncountable, plural nudations)

1. (now chiefly ecology) The act of stripping, or making bare or naked.

• “nudation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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