All husk synonyms
husk
H h noun husk
- rind — a piece of iron running across an upper millstone as a support.
- pod — the straight groove or channel in the body of certain augers or bits.
- chaff — Chaff is the outer part of grain such as wheat. It is removed before the grain is used as food.
- case — A particular case is a particular situation or incident, especially one that you are using as an individual example or instance of something.
- shell — a hard outer covering of an animal, as the hard case of a mollusk, or either half of the case of a bivalve mollusk.
- hull — Cordell [kawr-del,, kawr-del] /ˈkɔr dɛl,, kɔrˈdɛl/ (Show IPA), 1871–1955, U.S. statesman: secretary of state 1933–44; Nobel Peace Prize 1945.
- outside — the outer side, surface, or part; exterior: The outside of the house needs painting.
- skin — the external covering or integument of an animal body, especially when soft and flexible.
- bark — When a dog barks, it makes a short, loud noise, once or several times.
- shuck — a husk or pod, as the outer covering of corn, hickory nuts, chestnuts, etc.
- glume — one of the characteristic chafflike bracts of the inflorescence of grasses, sedges, etc., especially one of the pair of bracts at the base of a spikelet.
- aril — an appendage on certain seeds, such as those of the yew and nutmeg, developed from or near the funicle of the ovule and often brightly coloured and fleshy
- casing — A casing is a substance or object that covers something and protects it.
- covering — A covering is a layer of something that protects or hides something else.
verb husk
- undress — to take the clothes off (a person); disrobe.
- strip — to cut, tear, or form into strips.
- disrobe — Take off one's clothes.
- attire — Your attire is the clothes you are wearing.
- unwrap — to remove or open the wrapping of.
- unclothe — to strip of clothes.
- disarrayed — Simple past tense and past participle of disarray.
- excorticate — (obsolete) To strip of bark or skin.
- get out of — extricate oneself from
- denudate — denuded; bare
- uncloak — to remove the cloak from.