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What is another word for Decorticated?

Pronunciation: [dɛkˈɔːtɪkˌe͡ɪtɪd] (IPA)

Decorticated is a term used to describe the process of removing the outer layers of a fruit or vegetable to make it easier to cook or eat. Synonyms for decorticated include peeled, skinned, shelled, husked, and stripped. These words all suggest the removal of an outer layer or covering, but they can vary depending on the specific context. For example, peeled might be more commonly used when referring to removing the skin from a fruit or vegetable, while husked is often used to describe removing the outer shell from a nut or seed. Regardless of the specific synonym used, they all convey the idea of removing an exterior layer to access the inner part of the food.
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The calcined stone-work of the tower on the left, from top to bottom, has assumed a strange colour like that of baked flesh, and the saints, still standing upright in rank on the cornices, have been Decorticated, as it were, by fire.
"War"
Pierre Loti
There is a rustic bench, much roiled by the birds, and Decorticated and split by the weather, near the little gate.
"John Bull's Other Island"
George Bernard Shaw
I had occasional losses from the latter causes: once in the night when a cow was thrown on her back into a deep brick manger; and once when a small piece of sacking, part of a Decorticated cotton-cake bag, was somehow mixed in with the food, and induced internal inflammation.
"Grain and Chaff from an English Manor"
Arthur H. Savory

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