exacinate

English edit

Etymology edit

From Latin ex (“out”) + acinus (“kernel”).

Verb edit

exacinate (third-person singular simple present exacinates, present participle exacinating, simple past and past participle exacinated)

To remove the kernel from.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “exacinate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)