Decorticate

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Decorticate \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.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  decorticate
       v 1: remove the outer layer of; "decorticate a tree branch"
       2: remove the cortex of (an organ)