| Pronunciation: | | dee'kortu`keyt
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- [v] surgically remove the cortex of (an organ)
- [v] remove the outer layer of; "decorticate a tree branch"
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DECORTICATE is a 11 letter word that starts with D. |
| | See Also: | | remove, strip, take, take away, withdraw |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \De*cor"ti*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Decorticated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Decorticating}.] [L.
decorticatus, p. p. of decorticare to bark; de- + cortex
bark.]
To divest of the bark, husk, or exterior coating; to husk; to
peel; to hull. ``Great barley dried and decorticated.''
--Arbuthnot.
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