Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
decorticate : applied most frequently to trunks of fossil trees of the coal-measures. - Having the periostracum, or the periostracum and the porcelanous layer, worn away, as a shell.
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- adjective Having had the
outer covering removed
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Examples
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Spelled two ways – cardamom or cardamon – it comes in two forms (green or white fruit pods that contain tiny brown aromatic seeds, or decorticated seeds without the shell).
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Spelled two ways – cardamom or cardamon – it comes in two forms (green or white fruit pods that contain tiny brown aromatic seeds, or decorticated seeds without the shell).
Archives: Basmati and Nut Pilaf : The Cooking Adventures of Chef Paz 2009
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We take noisy exception, for example, to former human rights advocate Michael Ignatieff's recent decorticated attack on Israeli Apartheid Week and CUPE-Ontario's opposition to joint weapons research projects.
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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We saw something similar with the Terri Shiavo case, the decorticated woman in Florida.
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We saw something similar with the Terri Shiavo case, the decorticated woman in Florida.
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Back in the fall of 1959, when I arrived in Boston as a college freshman, the universally acknowledged top of the heap was Locke-Ober, a Belle Époque pillar of elegance off the Common, with a men-only main dining room and a stuffy menu crowned by a pointlessly fussy treatment of decorticated and reshelled lobster called Savannah.
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They want the money but don't want to have to explain their work, or account for their spending or even show results -- like the Northwestern researcher who has decorticated cats for 17 years.
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We take noisy exception, for example, to former human rights advocate Michael Ignatieff's recent decorticated attack on Israeli Apartheid Week and CUPE-Ontario's opposition to joint weapons research projects.
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Various aspects of surveillance are also decorticated and analysed in a book that counts over 650 pages: surveillance and everyday life, surveillance and pleasure, subversions, punishment, etc.
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(In a recent trial with soft-kernel sorghum, parboiling more than doubled the yield of decorticated grain.) · Inactivates enzymes and thereby greatly extends shelf life.
Chapter 25 1996
ruzuzu commented on the word decorticated
"1. Same as decorticate: applied most frequently to trunks of fossil trees of the coal-measures.
2. Having the periostracum, or the periostracum and the porcelanous layer, worn away, as a shell."
--Century Dictionary
April 8, 2011
hernesheir commented on the word decorticated
Definition 1 warms the cockles of this paleobotanist's heart.
April 8, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word decorticated
What are coal-measures?
April 8, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word decorticated
(Ah, answered my own question....)
April 8, 2011
mollusque commented on the word decorticated
Are your cockles decorticated?
April 9, 2011
yarb commented on the word decorticated
I read a novel recently - "An Ice-Cream War" by William Boyd - which features an entrepreneurial sisal farmer whose prized possession is his mighty mechanised decorticator.
And now this!
April 9, 2011