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peeled

adjectiveverbadjectiveattested in dialogue

  • //piːld//

With the outermost layer or skin removed.

adjective

  1. 1

    With the outermost layer or skin removed.

    The peeled fruit quickly turned brown.

    He stirred the campfire stew with a peeled stick, so the bark wouldn't get in it.

  2. 2

    Dieted down such as having attained a peak contrast of trained muscle volume.

Etymology

From peel (verb) + -ed (suffix forming past tenses).

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of peelsimple past and past participle of peel

adjective

  1. 1

    rareHaving a peel; (in combination) having the specified type of peel.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

Etymology

Etymology tree English peel Old English -ed Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz Old English -od Middle English -ed English -ed English peeled From peel (noun) + -ed (“having”).

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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