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decorticate
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Webster's 1828 Dictionary
DECORTICATE
v.t.[L. bark. ] To strip off bark; to peel; to husk; to take off the exterior coat; as, to decorticate barley.
DECORTICATED
pp. Stripped of bark; peeled; husked.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
DECORTICATE
De *cor "ti *cate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Decorticated; p. pr. & vb. n.Decorticating. ] Etym: [L. decorticatus, p. p. of decorticare to bark; de- + cortex bark. ]
Defn: To divest of the bark, husk, or exterior coating; to husk; to peel; to hull. "Great barley dried and decorticated. " Arbuthnot.
New American Oxford Dictionary
decorticate
de cor ti cate |dēˈkôrtiˌkāt diˈkɔrdəkeɪt | ▶verb [ with obj. ] 1 (often as adj. decorticated ) technical remove the bark, rind, or husk from: decorticated peanuts. 2 subject to surgical decortication. ▶adjective Biology & Psychology of or relating to an animal that has had the cortex of the brain removed or separated. ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from Latin decorticat- ‘stripped of its bark, ’ from the verb decorticare, from de- (expressing removal ) + cortex, cortic- ‘bark. ’
Oxford Dictionary
decorticate
decorticate |diːˈkɔːtɪkeɪt | ▶verb [ with obj. ] 1 technical remove the bark, rind, or husk from. 2 subject to surgical decortication. ▶adjective Biology & Psychology (of an animal ) having had the cortex of the brain removed or separated. ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from Latin decorticat- ‘stripped of its bark ’, from the verb decorticare, from de- (expressing removal ) + cortex, cortic- ‘bark ’.
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