decorticare

Meaning

1. (transitive) to debark, to decorticate, to remove the bark from (a plant, a tree)
2. (transitive) to hull (beans, flax or cotton seeds, etc.) industrially
3. (transitive) to remove the rind from (a piece of meat)
4. (transitive) to skin (a fur-bearing animal)
5. (transitive) to strip the topsoil of (a large area of ground) (especially for pollution remediation purposes)

Concepts

decorticate

Synonyms

sgranare

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Translations

écosser

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égrener

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dēcorticāre.