Crossword-Solution: DECORTICATION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Decortication | n. | The act of stripping off the bark, rind, hull, or outer coat. |
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| denudation | 4 answers |
| Uncovering | 6 answers |
| deshabille | 18 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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eruption
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Sentences with DECORTICATION (5)
This property has given rise to an operation called decortication, the results of which we shall examine later on from an industrial point of view.
Thus the process of decortication is effectively accomplished in a few minutes, instead of requiring, as it sometimes does in the retting process, days, and even weeks, and being at the best attended with uncertainty as to results, as is also the case when decortication is effected by machinery.
The decortication is effected with wonderful rapidity, and the canes, opened throughout their entire length and at all points of their circumference, leave the apparatus in a state that allows of no doubt as to what the result of the pressure will be that they have to undergo.
The chief industrial establishments are those for the decortication of rice at Saigon and Cholon; they are in the hands of the Chinese, by whom most of the trade in the colony is conducted.
Since the plant is grown on rocky lands, the leaves may be cut and conveyed to the decortication plant at any season of the year.