| 单词 | husk |
| 释义 | husk (once / 1957 pages) nv WORD FAMILY husk: husked, husking, husks+/husking: huskings USAGE EXAMPLESTry for contrasting flavors, shapes and colors, with at least one oddball, such as husk cherry. Washington Post(Dec 20, 2016) Local farmers were burning off the rain-washed stalks and husks of last year’s harvest. New York Times(Nov 29, 2016) They all had the same wide smile, the same chalk-colored teeth, the same sun- dried skin the color and texture of groundnut husks. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus(2003) 1n material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds Syn|Hypo|Hyper chaff, shuck, stalk, straw, stubble bran broken husks of the seeds of cereal grains that are separated from the flour by sifting plant material, plant substance material derived from plants 2n outer membranous covering of some fruits or seeds Hypo|Hyper cornhusk the husk of an ear of corn hulldry outer covering of a fruit or seed or nut cod, pod, seedcasethe vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves) bracta modified leaf or leaflike part just below and protecting an inflorescence shellthe hard usually fibrous outer layer of some fruits especially nuts calycle, calyculus, epicalyx, false calyxa group of bracts simulating a calyx as in a carnation or hibiscus pea pod, peasecodhusk of a pea; edible in some garden peas bracteole, bractleta small bract spathea conspicuous bract surrounding or subtending a spadix or other inflorescence involucrea highly conspicuous bract or bract pair or ring of bracts at the base of an inflorescence glumesmall dry membranous bract found in inflorescences of Gramineae and Cyperaceae case, sheath an enveloping structure or covering enclosing an animal or plant organ or part 3v remove the husks from husk corn Syn|Hyper shell remove, take, take away, withdraw remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract |
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