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   De·cor·ti·cate

   /dēˈkôrdəˌkāt/

   

   verb

   • 1. remove the bark, rind, or husk from: technical "tamarind seeds were cleaned, roasted, decorticated, and pulverized"
   • 2. subject to surgical decortication.

   adjective

   • 1. having had the cortex of the brain removed or separated.

   Word Origin early 17th century: from Latin decorticat- ‘stripped of its bark’, from the verb decorticare, from de- (expressing removal) + cortex, cortic- ‘bark’.

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