Anagrams of: EXFOLIATIVE

• a compound (such as ethanol or formaldehyde) that fixes tissues and cells for microscopic study

• a varnish dissolved in alcohol and sprayed over pictures to prevent smudging

• spread by opening the leaves of

• cast off in scales, laminae, or splinters

• remove the surface, in scales or laminae

• come off in a very thin piece

• grow by producing or unfolding leaves

• grasses of the genera Alopecurus and Setaria having dense silky or bristly brushlike flowering spikes

• send something via a facsimile machine

• attach (oneself) to a person or thing in a neurotic way

• pay attention to exclusively and obsessively

• make fixed, stable or stationary

• become fixed (on)

• the act of flexing

• contract

• exhibit the strength of

• form a curve

• bend a joint

• cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form

• fiber of the flax plant that is made into thread and woven into linen fabric

• plant of the genus Linum that is cultivated for its seeds and for the fibers of its stem