To decorticate is a verb meaning to remove the outer layer of something, such as bark or rind.
Décortiquer est un verbe qui signifie enlever la couche extérieure de quelque chose, comme l'écorce ou la peau.
| Front | decorticate /dee-KOR-ti-kayt/ |
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| Back | verb tr. To remove the outer layer, such as the bark, husk, rind, etc. [From Latin decorticare (to peel), from de- (from) + cortex (bark). Ultimately from the Indo-European root sker- (to cut), which is also the source of skirt, curt, screw, shard, shears, carnage, carnivorous, carnation, sharp, scrape, and excoriate. Earliest documented use: 1611.] "The idea, the sensation, the moment of intuition are decorticated and communicated with intimacy and lucidity." Marguerite Dorian; Demon in Brackets; World Literature Today; Jun 1995. |
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