Husk

Quick meaning: Husk is a noun meaning The dry, leafy or stringy exterior of certain vegetables or fruits, which must be removed before eating the meat inside.

Meaning

The dry, leafy or stringy exterior of certain vegetables or fruits, which must be removed before eating the meat inside.

More Meanings

1. (figuratively) Any form of useless, dried up, and subsequently worthless exterior of something.
2. The supporting frame of a run of millstones.
3. (transitive) To remove husks from.
4. An infection in cattle caused by a species of Dictyocaulus or lungworm
5. (intransitive) To cough, clear one's throat.
6. (transitive) To say huskily, to utter in a husky voice.

Example Sentences

A coconut has a very thick husk.

His attorney was a dried-up husk of a man.

The symptoms of Husk are a constant cough, rapid loss of flesh, difficulty in breathing and, in the later stages, loss of appetite and diarrhœa.

Back on the veranda he said to Lace gravely, "I do believe that poor child's in the family way." Lace, tracing the pattern of the matting with his boot, husked, and murmured, "Yes — I think so.

Word Forms

• husks
• husking
• husked

Synonyms for husk

Depending on context, synonyms include stalk, chaff, shuck, straw, stubble.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include shuck, chaff, straw, stubble, stalk, hay.

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