Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a husk; covered as if with a husk.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Covered with a husk.
- adjective Stripped of husks; deprived of husks.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
husk . - adjective Covered with a
husk .
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Examples
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Problem was, I didn't know what the word "husked" meant.
Eggplant with Tahini-Yoghurt Dressing Haalo 2009
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"husked" berries are used for making the white pepper of commerce.
Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Jewett Castello Gilson
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Her look of delight as she held aloft a husked green fruit was pure Indiana Jones.
Carolyn Ossorio: Chewing the Fat With Chef Tom Douglas Carolyn Ossorio 2011
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Interspersed with the garages are stands selling husked corn and tomatoes, mangoes and dwarf-size watermelons.
Amaryllis in Blueberry Christina Meldrum 2011
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Set the husked tomatillos on a baking sheet 4 inches beneath the broiler flame.
Fish Taco Recipe 2009
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Her look of delight as she held aloft a husked green fruit was pure Indiana Jones.
Carolyn Ossorio: Chewing the Fat With Chef Tom Douglas Carolyn Ossorio 2011
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With several deft strokes of his heavy-backed sheath-knife, Grief clipped a triangular piece of shell from the end of a husked drinking - cocoanut.
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Lee Tamplin Sacanagem at anchor A young man in his 20s approaches us and shows off the fruits of his afternoon's labor — a towering pile of husked coconuts nearly his height.
Panama, Ho! Nicholas Casey 2011
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The tender tips of the fallen palms were likewise eaten, while the thousands of coconuts were husked and split and sun-dried and smoke-cured into copra to be sold to the next passing trader.
CHAPTER XI 2010
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It's like freshly husked corn on the first day of the summer—bottled.
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