decorticate
Meaning of decorticate
- remove the bark, rind, or husk from.
tamarind seeds were cleaned, roasted, decorticated, and pulverized
- subject to surgical decortication.
adjective
having had the cortex of the brain removed or separated.
early 17th century: from Latin decorticat- ‘stripped of its bark’, from the verb decorticare, from de- (expressing removal) + cortex, cortic- ‘bark’.
Information about decorticate
- The plural form of decorticate is: decorticates.
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Hyphenation of decorticate
decor-ti-cate
- It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
- decorticate is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
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