peeled
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peeled (not comparable)
- With the outermost layer or skin removed.
- Antonym: unpeeled
- The peeled fruit quickly turned brown.
- He stirred the campfire stew with a peeled stick, so the bark wouldn't get in it.
- (rare) Having a peel; (in combination) having the specified type of peel.
- Synonym: (rare) peely
- 1958 June, J. Henry Burke, Citrus Industry of Chile (Foreign Agricultural Report; 108), page 14:
- Genova lemons average 8-10 sections and 5-6 seeds. They are thick-peeled and acid. Thin-peeled fruit at right was cured about 10 days.
- 1995, Agricultural Bulletin of the Malay Peninsula, volume 47, page 109:
- Only some mammals, such as monkeys (Janson, 1983) and bats (Phua and Corlett, 1989), appear to have the necessary dental capacity to open peeled fruits.
- 2014, David Zinczenko, Matt Goulding, Cook This, Not That! Skinny Comfort Foods, New York, N.Y.: Galvanized Books, →ISBN:
- We don’t know who Foster is, but he sure hates bananas. This New Orleans classic takes the nutritious yellow-peeled fruit, drowns it in butter, smothers it with sugar, douses it with rum, and sets it on fire.
- 2021, Simon Goisser, Suitability of Portable NIR Sensors (Food-Scanners) for the Determination of Fruit Quality Along the Supply Chain Using the Example of Tomatoes, Cuvillier Verlag, →ISBN, page 15:
- Transmittance mode can help to gather information about the constituents of thick-peeled fruit (e.g., citrus fruit, cantaloupes, melons), however these measurements require very high light intensities, which could result in burning of fruit surface and the alteration of spectral information.
- (bodybuilding) Dieted down such as having attained a peak contrast of trained muscle volume.
- Hypernyms: see Thesaurus:strapping
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peeled
- simple past and past participle of peel