decorticate
Americanverb (used with object)
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to remove the bark, husk, or outer covering from.
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Surgery. to remove the cortex from (an organ or structure).
verb
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(tr) to remove the bark or some other outer layer from
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surgery to remove the cortex of (an organ or part)
Other Word Forms
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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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
Auricularini.—The genera Hymenochœte, Stereum, and Corticium, with some species of Thelephora, run over corticated or decorticated wood; other species of Thelephora grow on the ground.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)
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 Henry, O.
Andrew Knight observed that his bees, instead of laboriously collecting propolis, used a cement of wax and turpentine, with which he had covered decorticated trees.
From The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, 6th Edition by Darwin, Charles
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 MacGillivray, William
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 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
Many copra-making plants in India and Ceylon are now supplied with decorticating, breaking, and evaporating machinery.
From The Cocoanut With reference to its products and cultivation in the Philippines by Lyon, William S. (Scrugham)
The outlay for fencing against wandering flocks of goats and for decorticating machinery and other expenses would deter the ordinary cultivator from planting, and this could only be profitably undertaken if ample capital were forthcoming.
From Notes on Agriculture in Cyprus and Its Products by Bevan, William
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
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