GDict

peeled

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adj/piːld/
  1. 1

    With the outermost layer or skin removed.not-comparable

    • 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.not-comparable

verb/piːld/
  1. 1

    simple past and past participle of peelform-ofparticiplepast

adj/piːld/
  1. 1

    Having a peel; (in combination) having the specified type of peel.not-comparablerare

    • 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.

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