Husk

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The outer membranous or green envelope of some fruits or seeds, as that of a walnut or an ear of corn.
  • n. A shell or outer covering, especially when considered worthless.
  • n. A framework serving as a support.
  • v. To remove the husk from.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To say huskily, to utter in a husky voice.
  • n. The dry, leafy or stringy exterior of certain vegetables or fruits, which must be removed before eating the meat inside
  • n. Any form of useless, dried-up, and subsequently worthless exterior of something
  • v. To remove husks from.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The external covering or envelope of certain fruits or seeds; glume; hull; rind; in the United States, especially applied to the covering of the ears of maize.
  • n. The supporting frame of a run of millstones.
  • v. To strip off the external covering or envelope of.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The external covering of certain fruits or seeds of plants; the glume, epicarp, rind, or hull; in the United States, specifically, the outer covering of an ear of maize or Indian corn.
  • n. Something resembling a husk, or serving the purpose of husks, as the membranous covering of an insect, or (sometimes) the shells of oysters.
  • n. Figuratively, the outer covering of anything; that which incloses or conceals the reality or the essential part; hence, in the plural, refuse; waste.
  • n. The frame which supports a run of millstones.
  • To strip off the external integument or covering of.
  • To open or shuck, as oysters.
  • n. The greater dogfish, Scylliorhinus canicula.
  • Dry; parched.
  • n. Huskiness.
  • n. A company of hares.
  • n. Corn-meal bran.
  • n. A cup-shaped form composed of short leaves, common in Greek, Roman, and Renaissance decoration, from which rinceaux and other motives usually start. There are about 84 of these starting-points.
  • n. The verminous bronchitis of cattle, found particularly in calves, and caused by roundworms belonging to the species Metastrongylus micrurus.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
  • n. outer membranous covering of some fruits or seeds
  • v. remove the husks from
  • Verb Form
    husked    huskes    husking    husks   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    remove    take    withdraw    take away   
    Cross Reference
    capillary husk    husky   
    Form
    husked    husking   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    glume    hull    rind   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Rusk    brusque    busk    cusk    dusk    lusk    musk    rusk    tusk   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    stalk    kernel    rind    pulp    straw    twig    chaff    fibre    moss    weed