unhusked

[uhn-huhskt]

adjective

1. not having had the husk removed; still in the husk.

2. having had the husk removed.

Example Sentences

Unhusked ears of corn can be kept loose in the vegetable crisper while husked corn should be kept in a plastic bag for extra protection.

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The crimes begin to surface one hot January morning, as a French hotel manager is taking his predawn constitutional along Rokely Bay and spies through a mist of sand flies something just above the tide line that looks like an unhusked coconut.

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About a fifth of rice output and just under a third of corn production in the northeastern province of Isabela are at risk of being damaged or destroyed by the typhoon, its governor, Faustino "Bodjie" Dy, said.Before the typhoon, the Cagayan Valley region, of which Isabela forms a part, was forecast to produce 341,540 tonnes of unhusked rice, or about a tenth of projected national output, in the July-September quarter, the national statistics body said.

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A local woman dries unhusked rice in front of her home on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

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In one corner of the room there was a pile of green unhusked coconuts.

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