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
There is a rustic bench, much roiled by the birds, and decorticated and split by the weather, near the little gate.
From John Bull's Other Island by Bernard Shaw
Shell transverse, equivalve, not affixed, the tops decorticated.
From Zoological Illustrations, Volume I or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals by William Swainson
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
The species just described developed abundantly in August on the recently decorticated logs of Pinus ponderosa, on the south-western slopes of Mt.
From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride
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
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
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 William S. (Scrugham) Lyon
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 William Bevan
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