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Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin dēcorticāre.
Verb
decorticàre (first-person singular present decòrtico, first-person singular past historic decorticài, past participle decorticàto, auxiliary avére)
- (transitive) to debark, to decorticate, to remove the bark from (a plant, a tree)
- Synonym: scortecciare
- (transitive) to hull (beans, flax or cotton seeds, etc.) industrially
- (transitive) to remove the rind from (a piece of meat)
- (transitive) to skin (a fur-bearing animal)
- (transitive) to strip the topsoil of (a large area of ground) (especially for pollution remediation purposes)
Conjugation
Further reading
- decorticare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
dēcorticāre
- inflection of dēcorticō:
- present active infinitive
- second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative
Romanian
Etymology
From decortica + -re.
Noun
decorticare f (plural decorticări)
- decortication
Declension
Spanish
Verb
decorticare
- first/third-person singular future subjunctive of decorticar