excorticate

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To strip of bark, shell or skin. archaic,obsolete
    — Moſs is to be rubb'd and ſcrap'd off with ſome fit inſtrument of Wood, which may not excorticate the Tree, or with a piece of Hair-cloth after a ſobbing Rain: [...]

词形变化

excorticates present,singular,third-person excorticating participle,present excorticated participle,past excorticated past

词源

From Latin ex (“out”), from cortex, corticis (“bark”).
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