excorticate
English
Etymology
From Latin ex (“out”), from cortex, corticis (“bark”).
Verb
excorticate (third-person singular simple present excorticates, present participle excorticating, simple past and past participle excorticated)
- (obsolete) To strip of bark or skin.
- Evelyn
- Excorticate the tree.
- Evelyn
Synonyms
- decorticate
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for excorticate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)