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单词 excorticate
释义

excorticatev.

/ɛksˈkɔːtɪkeɪt/
Etymology: < Latin ex- out + cortic- stem of cortex bark, shell + -ate suffix3.
a. transitive. To pull or strip off the bark from (a tree), or the shell from (a nut, seed). Also figurative.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > uncover or remove covering from [verb (transitive)] > strip or make bare > strip of outer layer > strip of skin, husk, or bark
bipilc1230
unrinda1382
slipe?c1390
hull1398
pill1440
husk1562
flay1574
unhusk1598
decorticate1611
depilate1620
rind1623
excorticate1657
disbark1659
1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Physical Inst. ii, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. I4 The unctious seeds..are excorticated by a knife.
1664 J. Evelyn Sylva 69 Moss is to be rubb'd and scrap'd off with some fit instrument of Wood, which may not excorticate the Tree.
1844 A. R. Smith Adventures Mr. Ledbury I. v. 53 Looking about the nails as if he had been excorticating millions of new walnuts.
b. figurative.
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1600 M. Sutcliffe Briefe Refut. Calumnious Relation Conf. vi. 31 in Briefe Replie to Libel To make his eloquence seeme more admirable, he doth excorticate certaine Latin words according to his Romish fashion.

Derivatives

exˈcorticated adj.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > [adjective] > stripped or made bare > stripped of skin, husk, or bark
pilleda1382
peeled?a1425
unrinded1581
excorticated1657
decorticated1798
1657 Physical Dict. Excorticated, fleyed or pieled.
1693 Sir E. King in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 863 (Whole Oatmeal, or) an Excorticated Oat.
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Diahexapte Take Juniper-Berries unexcorticated, and Bay Berries excorticated.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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