Definition of "decorticated" []

• Having had the outer covering removed (adjective)

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• "Spelled two ways – cardamom or cardamon – it comes in two forms (green or white fruit pods that contain tiny brown aromatic seeds, or decorticated seeds without the shell)."
• "We take noisy exception, for example, to former human rights advocate Michael Ignatieff's recent decorticated attack on Israeli Apartheid Week and CUPE-Ontario's opposition to joint weapons research projects."
• "We saw something similar with the Terri Shiavo case, the decorticated woman in Florida."