husk
Corn's outer layer
A husk is the dry outer covering of a seed or fruit—corn husks, coconut husks.
To husk corn is to strip away this covering.
Figuratively, a husk is an empty shell of what once held life: After the divorce, he was just a husk of his former self.
The adjective husky, meaning dry-throated or rough-voiced, derives from the same image.
Hard outer covering
- sheathProtective blade covering
- podSeed case or cetacean group
- rindTough outer covering
- skinBody's outer layer
membrane · bark · casing · wrapper · coat · jacket · envelope · peel
Hard outer covering
- skeletonInternal supportive framework
- remainsContinues in place
- vestigeFaint surviving trace
- relicPreserved ancient object
fragment · leftover · trace · residue · debris · detritus · empty · dried
shell
Hard outer covering
skin · membrane · bark · casing · wrapper · coat · jacket · envelope · peel · integument
shell
Hard outer covering
relic · fragment · leftover · trace · residue · debris · detritus · empty · dried · withered
chaff
Protective seed coverings
wheat · barley · oats · rice · sorghum · millet · harvest · shucking · ear · cob
huskiness
Rough vocal quality
throaty · rough · scratchy · croaky · gruff · low · breathy · rasping · dry
- cornsweet corn, field corn, corn flour, corn starch, cornmeal
- grain farmingwheat, wheat field, wheat fields, wheat farming, corn
- harvestreaping, fall harvest, wheat sheaf, reaper, reap
- hullschaff, bran, seed coat, testa, pericarp
- grass anatomyspikelet, floret, lemma, awn, culm
- seed anatomyembryo, radicle, plumule, cotyledon, seed coat
- corn huskOuter maize leaf layers
- coconut huskFibrous outer shell
- Siberian HuskyNorthern sled dog breed
- corn huskingRemoving outer maize leaves
- Alaskan HuskyNorthern working canine breed
- corn huskerMaize leaf remover
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