{ } a. [ L. corticatus. ] Having a special outer covering of a nature unlike the interior part. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Decorticated; p. pr. & vb. n. Decorticating. ] [ L. decorticatus, p. p. of decorticare to bark; de- + cortex bark. ] To divest of the bark, husk, or exterior coating; to husk; to peel; to hull. “Great barley dried and decorticated.” Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. ex out, from + cortex, corticis, bark. ] To strip of bark or skin; to decorticate. [ Obs. ] “Excorticate the tree.” Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]