husks 的 2 个定义
- 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.
- to remove the husk from.
husks 近义词
covering, case
更多husks例句
- 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.