HUSK meaning: Outer shell of seeds, grains

We found 39 dictionaries that define the word HUSK:

General (28 matching dictionaries)

husk: Merriam-Webster
husk: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
husk: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
husk: Collins English Dictionary
husk: Vocabulary.com
Husk, husk: Wordnik
husk: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Husk: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
Husk, husk: Wiktionary
husk: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
husk: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
husk: Infoplease Dictionary
Husk, husk: Dictionary.com
husk: Online Etymology Dictionary
husk: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Husk (comics), Husk (disambiguation), Husk (film), Husk: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Husk: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
husk: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
husk: Rhymezone
husk: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
husk: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
husk: FreeDictionary.org
husk: Mnemonic Dictionary
husk: TheFreeDictionary.com
Husk: Infoplease Dictionary
husk: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

husk: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)

husk: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
online medical dictionary (No longer online)
husk: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

HUSK: Acronym Finder

Religion (1 matching dictionary)

Husk: Easton Bible

Science (1 matching dictionary)

Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

husk, husk: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
husk: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)

Dairy Glossary (No longer online)

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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.

Similar:

chaff, shuck, straw, stubble, stalk, cornhusking, peel, shelling, crap, shude, more...

Opposite:

kernel

Types:

corn husk, coconut husk, rice husk, behusk, peanut husk, more...

Phrases:

rice husk, corn husk, psyllium husk, husk tomato, husk tomatoes, more...

Adjectives:

outer, empty, mere, dry, thicker, fibrous, green, old, rough, thin, tough

Colors:

beige, tan, khaki, sand, taupe, more...