decorticare

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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)

  1. (transitive) to debark, to decorticate, to remove the bark from (a plant, a tree)
    Synonym: scortecciare
  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)

Conjugation

Related terms

Further reading

  • decorticare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

dēcorticāre

  1. inflection of dēcorticō:
    1. present active infinitive
    2. second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative

Romanian

Etymology

From decortica +‎ -re.

Noun

decorticare f (plural decorticări)

  1. decortication

Declension

Spanish

Verb

decorticare

  1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive of decorticar