excortication

== English == === Etymology === Compare French excortication. === Noun === excortication (usually uncountable, plural excortications) The act of stripping off bark, or a similar structure The state of being stripped of bark, or something similar. ==== Synonyms ==== decortication ==== Related terms ==== excorticate === References === “excortication”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.