excortication
English
Etymology
Compare French excortication.
Noun
excortication (usually uncountable, plural excortications)
- The act of stripping off bark, or the state of being thus stripped.
Synonyms
- decortication
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 excortication in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)