Husk
noun
The dry, outer covering of some fruits or seeds.
She removed the husk from the corn before cooking it.
Often appears as...
- corn husk
- rice husk
verb
To remove the husk from a fruit or seed.
You need to husk the coconut before using it in the recipe.
Often appears as...
- husk corn
- husk rice
noun
An empty, useless remain.
The old building was nothing but a husk of its former glory.
Often appears as...
- husk of its former self
- husk of a building
noun
The dry, outer covering of some fruits or seeds.
She removed the husk from the corn before cooking it.
Often appears as...
- corn husk
- rice husk
verb
To remove the husk from a fruit or seed.
You need to husk the coconut before using it in the recipe.
Often appears as...
- husk corn
- husk rice
noun
An empty, useless remain.
The old building was nothing but a husk of its former glory.
Often appears as...
- husk of its former self
- husk of a building
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Botanical Context
Generally found in agricultural or cooking discussions, where seeds or fruits are involved.
Farmers often burn rice husks after harvest for waste management.
Pro Tip 2/3Protection Purpose
'Husk' implies a natural protective layer for the seed inside.
The tough coconut husk protects the seed from damage.
Pro Tip 3/3Edible vs Inedible
Husks are usually inedible parts and need to be separated before consumption.
After husking, the edible kernels are ground into flour.
Pro Tip 1/3Botanical Context
Generally found in agricultural or cooking discussions, where seeds or fruits are involved.
Farmers often burn rice husks after harvest for waste management.
Pro Tip 2/3Protection Purpose
'Husk' implies a natural protective layer for the seed inside.
The tough coconut husk protects the seed from damage.
Pro Tip 3/3Edible vs Inedible
Husks are usually inedible parts and need to be separated before consumption.
After husking, the edible kernels are ground into flour.
Pro Tip 1/3Botanical Context
Generally found in agricultural or cooking discussions, where seeds or fruits are involved.
Farmers often burn rice husks after harvest for waste management.
Pro Tip 2/3Protection Purpose
'Husk' implies a natural protective layer for the seed inside.
The tough coconut husk protects the seed from damage.
Pro Tip 3/3Edible vs Inedible
Husks are usually inedible parts and need to be separated before consumption.
After husking, the edible kernels are ground into flour.
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Eben Bayer: Are...
whether it's a packaging material, a table top, or building block. Our vision is local manufacturing, like the local food movement, for production. So we've created formulations for all around the world using regional byproducts. If you're in China, you might use a rice husk or a cottonseed hull.
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4 reasons to learn a new...
they have accents, they're not idiomatic. Suddenly these characters that you've fallen in love with become husks of themselves, they're shadows of themselves. To go into a culture and to only ever process people through that kind of skrim curtain is to never truly get the culture.
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Performing brain surgery...
Once radiosurgery treatment has destroyed the tumor’s cells, the body’s natural cleaning mechanism kicks in. The immune system rapidly sweeps up the husks of dead cells to flush them out of the body, while other cells transform into scar tissue.
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How to use rhetoric to...
The point is to use factual knowledge to convince the audience, as in Sojourner Truth's argument for women's "I have as much muscle as any man and can do as much work as any man. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed
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Safari Live - Day 166 PIPE...
trying to spit or vomit some seeds as now we have come to winter the only eating the husks and then the hard part of the seed they'll get it out so that's the gray go away bad they'll always help us sometimes when they make alum coughs
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Safari Live - Day 146 PIPE...
doing initially I thought they were gathering the seed husks or the seeds from the grass but now doesn't look like they are you know normally the ants are very very important for the ecosystem because they won't gather a lot of seeds
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How to grow a glacier -...
fragments of ice from male and female glaciers, then covering them with charcoal, wheat husks, cloths, or willow branches so they can reproduce. Under their protective coverings, these glacierets transform into fully active glaciers
Video examples
The history of the world...
Teosinte’s rock-hard seeds were barely edible, but its fibrous husk could be turned into a versatile material. Over the next 4,700 years, farmers bred the plant into a staple crop, with larger cobs and edible kernels.
Video examples
The wild world of...
When they open again a few days later, only the dry husk of his exoskeleton remains. The mayfly is the last creature standing. As she approaches the butterwort plant,
Video examples
The Deadly Portuguese...
eventually all that is left is a scaly husk this voracious man of war may collect
Video examples
Eben Bayer: Are...
whether it's a packaging material, a table top, or building block. Our vision is local manufacturing, like the local food movement, for production. So we've created formulations for all around the world using regional byproducts. If you're in China, you might use a rice husk or a cottonseed hull.
Video examples
4 reasons to learn a new...
they have accents, they're not idiomatic. Suddenly these characters that you've fallen in love with become husks of themselves, they're shadows of themselves. To go into a culture and to only ever process people through that kind of skrim curtain is to never truly get the culture.
Video examples
Performing brain surgery...
Once radiosurgery treatment has destroyed the tumor’s cells, the body’s natural cleaning mechanism kicks in. The immune system rapidly sweeps up the husks of dead cells to flush them out of the body, while other cells transform into scar tissue.
Video examples
How to use rhetoric to...
The point is to use factual knowledge to convince the audience, as in Sojourner Truth's argument for women's "I have as much muscle as any man and can do as much work as any man. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 166 PIPE...
trying to spit or vomit some seeds as now we have come to winter the only eating the husks and then the hard part of the seed they'll get it out so that's the gray go away bad they'll always help us sometimes when they make alum coughs
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 146 PIPE...
doing initially I thought they were gathering the seed husks or the seeds from the grass but now doesn't look like they are you know normally the ants are very very important for the ecosystem because they won't gather a lot of seeds
Video examples
How to grow a glacier -...
fragments of ice from male and female glaciers, then covering them with charcoal, wheat husks, cloths, or willow branches so they can reproduce. Under their protective coverings, these glacierets transform into fully active glaciers
Video examples
The history of the world...
Teosinte’s rock-hard seeds were barely edible, but its fibrous husk could be turned into a versatile material. Over the next 4,700 years, farmers bred the plant into a staple crop, with larger cobs and edible kernels.
Video examples
The wild world of...
When they open again a few days later, only the dry husk of his exoskeleton remains. The mayfly is the last creature standing. As she approaches the butterwort plant,
Video examples
The Deadly Portuguese...
eventually all that is left is a scaly husk this voracious man of war may collect
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Debi Gliori
Scottish Writer
There are whole months at a time when my head is so full of ideas that I wake in the middle of the night and lie in the dark telling myself stories. There are also long, dark nights when I just know I'll never write another word: I'm finished, empty, a husk... Oh dear, yes, twitch, yawn, how I've suffered insomnia for my art.
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Jack Monroe
British Journalist
I have a surprisingly large appetite anyway and I don't drive, I walk everywhere, I don't sit down at the moment and I pace the hallway when I'm on the phone. I think that if I didn't eat large amounts of carbs and cheese I would wither away into a husk.
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Noel Fielding
English Comedian
I think the more you party and the more you get drunk, the more your soul starts to evaporate, and eventually, you're just a husk. So you have to go to the gym and build your soul up again.
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Irving Babbitt
American Critic
We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.
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Ken Kercheval
American Actor
Most corn is combine harvested, which means it's picked and shelled in the field - but that's rough on the corn because the husk is more likely to be scratched or cracked.
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Yotam Ottolenghi
Israeli Chef
Like brown rice, black rice is unmilled, and it is the dark outer husk that makes it so nutty and chewy. It's also why it takes longer to cook than many other rices.
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Chuck Palahniuk
American Novelist
In my family, we can't just sit and be together. We have to be shelling peas or husking corn or something. A larger task. Some way of being with people.
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Alice James
American Writer
Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.
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George MacDonald
Scottish Novelist
Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.
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Daniel Radcliffe
British Actor
A friend often says I'm an old man in a young man's husk. I like that. I am old-fashioned in some ways.
Quote examples
Debi Gliori
Scottish Writer
There are whole months at a time when my head is so full of ideas that I wake in the middle of the night and lie in the dark telling myself stories. There are also long, dark nights when I just know I'll never write another word: I'm finished, empty, a husk... Oh dear, yes, twitch, yawn, how I've suffered insomnia for my art.
Quote examples
Jack Monroe
British Journalist
I have a surprisingly large appetite anyway and I don't drive, I walk everywhere, I don't sit down at the moment and I pace the hallway when I'm on the phone. I think that if I didn't eat large amounts of carbs and cheese I would wither away into a husk.
Quote examples
Noel Fielding
English Comedian
I think the more you party and the more you get drunk, the more your soul starts to evaporate, and eventually, you're just a husk. So you have to go to the gym and build your soul up again.
Quote examples
Irving Babbitt
American Critic
We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.
Quote examples
Ken Kercheval
American Actor
Most corn is combine harvested, which means it's picked and shelled in the field - but that's rough on the corn because the husk is more likely to be scratched or cracked.
Quote examples
Yotam Ottolenghi
Israeli Chef
Like brown rice, black rice is unmilled, and it is the dark outer husk that makes it so nutty and chewy. It's also why it takes longer to cook than many other rices.
Quote examples
Chuck Palahniuk
American Novelist
In my family, we can't just sit and be together. We have to be shelling peas or husking corn or something. A larger task. Some way of being with people.
Quote examples
Alice James
American Writer
Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.
Quote examples
George MacDonald
Scottish Novelist
Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.
Quote examples
Daniel Radcliffe
British Actor
A friend often says I'm an old man in a young man's husk. I like that. I am old-fashioned in some ways.
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