decorticate

American  

[dee-kawr-ti-kayt] / diˈkɔr tɪˌkeɪt /

verb (used with object)

decorticated, decorticating

1. to remove the bark, husk, or outer covering from.

2. Surgery. to remove the cortex from (an organ or structure).

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decorticate British  

/ diːˈkɔːtɪˌkeɪt /

verb

1. (tr) to remove the bark or some other outer layer from

2. surgery to remove the cortex of (an organ or part)

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Other Word Forms

• decortication
  noun
• decorticator
  noun
• undecorticated
  adjective

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Etymology

Origin of decorticate

1605–15; < Latin dēcorticātus (past participle of dēcorticāre to peel), equivalent to dē- de- + corticātus having bark, shell; see corticate

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Example Sentences

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decorticate decorticated decorticating

Whenever a machine is invented that will economically decorticate the Ramie fiber, its cultivation will become an important industry in this country.

From The Hawaiian Islands Their Resources, Agricultural, Commercial and Financial by Hawaii. Dept. of Foreign Affairs

He decorticated the Third Reich, cheese fanciers, gossip columnists and the Hollywood star system with equal and total frenzy.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mary sat in a wooden chair and decorticated spuds, with a thrill in her heart.

From The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million by O. Henry

Geoffry informs us, that he obtained 30½ ounces of oil from eight pounds of the decorticated seeds, being at the rate of very nearly 24 lbs. of oil from 100 lbs. of seed.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by P. L. Simmonds

They use much pottage made of coal-wort, which they call keal, sometimes broth of decorticated barley.

From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by William MacGillivray

The decorticated kernels gave a perfectly sweet, inodorous, and almost colorless oil, which rapidly thickens to an almost colorless, transparent, and perfectly elastic skin or film, which does not darken or crack easily by age.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 717, September 28, 1889 by Various

At Pisgah Forest, N. C., Paperman Harry Straus set up a plant to make cigaret paper direct from domestic flax, separating the flax fibre from the flax straw by newly developed decorticating machines.

From Time Magazine Archive

The axis of the decorticating cylinder does not coincide with that of the vessel, B', so that the free interval for the passage of the cane continues to diminish from the entrance to the exit.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884. by Various

It receives in addition a cog-wheel, L, which transmits its motion to the decorticating cylinder through, the intermedium of a large wooden-toothed gear wheel, L'.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884. by Various

Ramie grows luxuriantly, but the lack of proper decorticating and cleaning machinery has prevented any advance in this cultivation.

From The Hawaiian Islands Their Resources, Agricultural, Commercial and Financial by Hawaii. Dept. of Foreign Affairs

The entrance plates, D, are provided with 6 spiral channels, whose pitch is equal to that of the channels of the decorticating cylinder, C, and in the same direction.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884. by Various

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