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husks

/huhsk/US // hʌsk //UK // (hʌsk) //

谷壳,秕糠,秕粒,砻糠

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the dry external covering of certain fruits or seeds, especially of an ear of corn.
    • : the enveloping or outer part of anything, especially when dry or worthless.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to remove the husk from.

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Examples

  • The adventurers’ tent had been sliced open from the inside, and in its husk lay rucksacks, neatly arranged boots, and a plate of sliced pork fat.

  • Lard-rich tamales are a pandemic-ready project, well worth the time it takes to swaddle dough into corn husk wrappers.

  • Then from there, they get trucked to the huller, which removes the green husk off of the nuts that still have it on—30 or 40% of them—and cleans them and washes them.

  • There’s a husk that peels off, revealing a nut shell underneath.

  • Remove the garlic cloves from the pot, squeeze them out of their husks and spread the garlic puree on toasted baguette.

  • Still, the exposed skin on my face and hands felt drawn and hot, stinging, a fire of whiteness, a burning Caucasian husk.

  • The crab begins by tearing the husk, fiber by fiber, and always from that end under which the three eye-holes are situated.

  • Dumas states that the husk of oats sometimes yields as much as five or six per cent.

  • The house, the bit of the world it gave upon, seemed a part of her life, the containing husk of all the fruitage born to her.

  • He broke off the branch, and with the sharp point he soon had torn a hole in the outer husk of the cocoanut.

  • The dried husk of the maiz is taken and cut into pieces of the required size.