Usually means: Outer shells of grains, discarded.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. husks: Merriam-Webster
  2. husks: Collins English Dictionary
  3. husks: Vocabulary.com
  4. Husks, husks: Wordnik
  5. husks: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. Husks, husks: Wiktionary
  7. husks: Dictionary.com
  8. husks: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. husks: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. husks: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. husks: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. husks: Medical dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Husks: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. husks: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Husk)

noun:  The dry, leafy or stringy exterior of certain vegetables or fruits, which must be removed before eating the meat inside.
noun:  (figuratively) Any form of useless, dried up, and subsequently worthless exterior of something.
noun:  The supporting frame of a run of millstones.
verb:  (transitive) To remove husks from.
noun:  An infection in cattle caused by a species of Dictyocaulus or lungworm
verb:  (intransitive) To cough, clear one's throat.
verb:  (transitive) To say huskily, to utter in a husky voice.
noun:  A surname.
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