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Definition: Husk |
HuskNoun1. Material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds. 2. Outer membranous covering of some fruits or seeds. Verb1. Remove the husks from, as of ears of corn. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "husk" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Bible | Husk In Num. 6:4 (Heb. zag) it means the "skin" of a grape. In 2 Kings 4:42 (Heb. tsiqlon) it means a "sack" for grain, as rendered in the Revised Version. In Luke 15:16, in the parable of the Prodigal Son, it designates the beans of the carob tree, or Ceratonia siliqua. From the supposition, mistaken, however, that it was on the husks of this tree that John the Baptist fed, it is called "St. John's bread" and "locust tree." This tree is in "February covered with innumerable purple-red pendent blossoms, which ripen in April and May into large crops of pods from 6 to 10 inches long, flat, brown, narrow, and bent like a horn (whence the Greek name keratia, meaning 'little horns'), with a sweetish taste when still unripe. Enormous quantities of these are gathered for sale in various towns and for exportation." "They were eaten as food, though only by the poorest of the poor, in the time of our Lord." The bean is called a "gerah," which is used as the name of the smallest Hebrew weight, twenty of these making a shekel. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Food & Agriculture | Outer covering of certain fruits(such as Juglans), usually derived from the perianth or involucre. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: HuskSynonyms: chaff (n), shuck (n), stalk (n), straw (n), stubble (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Covering | Peel, crust, bark, rind, cortex, husk, shell, coat; eggshell, glume. |
Capsule; sheath, sheathing; pod, cod; casing, case, theca; elytron; elytrum; involucrum; wrapping, wrapper; envelope, vesicle; corn husk, corn shuck; dermatology, conchology; testaceology. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Husk |
| English words defined with "husk": angiocarp, angiocarpic, angiocarpous, Areca catechu ♦ betel palm ♦ cocoanut, coconut, Cod, coir, cornhusk, Cornshuck ♦ Dehusk, downy ground cherry ♦ ground cherry ♦ hazel, hazelnut, hazelnut tree, husk tomato, Husked ♦ Indian cordage ♦ Kex ♦ Mexican husk tomato, milled ♦ Paddy, Palea, pea pod, peasecod, Physalis pubescens, polished, polished rice ♦ Sheal, Shealing, Soap plant, Sowens, strawberry tomato ♦ tomatillo ♦ Unhusked, Unshale ♦ white rice. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "husk": corn silk ♦ dinkel wheat ♦ Envelope ♦ hulled grains ♦ MEXICAN FOOD MAKER, HAND ♦ Nestorians ♦ paddy rice ♦ rice in the husk, rough rice ♦ semi-milled rice, spelt wheat ♦ TERMINALIA CATAPPA. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "husk": Sleeve. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Husk postnummer (1967) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | (3) color slides show a single piece of raw corn with husk stripped away to see the yellow corn. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer). |
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| Author | Quotation |
G. Macdonald | Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk. |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ENVELOPE, n. The coffin of a document; the scabbard of a bill; the husk of a remittance; the bed-gown of a love-letter. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | You know, if Congress wasn't spending so much time inventing clever acronyms, we might have Osama bin Laden's lifeless husk on display at the Smithsonian by now. |
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| "Husk" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 85.19% of the time. "Husk" is used about 54 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 85.19% | 46 | 50,285 |
| Noun (proper) | 9.26% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 3.7% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.85% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 54 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "husk" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Husk | Last name | 1,000 | 13,493 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "husk": husk tomato ♦ mexican husk tomato ♦ rice in the husk. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "husk": corn-husk. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "husk"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | skil (bark, peel, shell). (various references) | |
Albanian | ngjirje e zërit (frog in the throat), lëvozhgë (cortex, follicle, glume, jacket, Peel, peeling, pod, shell, shuck), lëvore (bark, bast, cortex, Hull, jacket, Peel, rind, skin), gozhutë, cipë (aril, film, fur, integument, involucre, membrane, Peel, peeling, pellicle, tegument), byk (chaff, hayseed, Hull). (various references) | |
Arabic | قشرة (bark, cortex, hull, peel, rind, scale, shard, shell, shuck, skin, squama, test), قشر (bark, exfoliate, hull, pare, peel, rind, scale, scrape, shave, shell, shuck, skin, strip). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | черупка (Bushing, crust, envelope, house, old tub, shell, shuck, test, Testa), чистя от листа, олющвам (excoriate, skin), обвивка (aril, casing, coat, covering, encasement, envelope, envelopment, jacket, mantle, sheath, sheeting, shell, tegument, tunic, wrap, wrappage, wrapping), люспа (flake, scale, shell, shuck, squama), лющя (decorticate, desquamate, exfoliate, peel, shell). (various references) | |
Chinese | , 果壳. (various references) | |
Czech | slupka (Hull, jacket, Peel, skin), skořápka (shale, shell, shuck), pleva, obal (casing, container, cover, packaging, packing, padding, sleeve, tunic, wrap, wrapper, wrapping), lusk (Hull, legume, pod), loupat (Hull, peel, peel off, shell). (various references) | |
Danish | bark (bark, peel, shell). (various references) | |
Dutch | dop (bark, peel, shell), schors (bark, peel, shell), schil (bark, peel, shell), schaal (bark, carapace, course, dish, peel, plate, platter, scale, shell, tube, valve). (various references) | |
Esperanto | ŝelo (bark, peel, shell). (various references) | |
Faeroese | skel (bark, peel, shell, tube, valve), skal (bark, peel, shell), flus (bark, peel, scale, shell), børkur (bark, peel, shell). (various references) | |
Farsi | پوست (Cortex, Cuticle, Hide, Hull, Membrane, Peel, Peeling, Rind, Shale, Shell, Skin, Slough), حقه گل (Calyx), غلاف یاکاسه گل , سبوس (Bran, Chaff, Shuck, Slough), بی پوشش کردن , بی سبوس کردن . (various references) | |
Finnish | kuori (bark, case, chancel, choir, crust, fruit skin, hull, jacket, peel, shell). (various references) | |
French | coque (Hull). (various references) | |
German | Schale (bark, basin, bowl, capsule, carapace, champagne glass, course, cup, dish, hull, pan, peel, peeling, pelvis, plate, platter, pod, rind, scarves, shell, shuck, skin), Hülse (bark, bushing, capsule, cartridge, case, Hull, involucre, peel, pod, shell, shuck, sleeve), spelze (glume, Hull), hüllblatt. (various references) | |
Greek | έλυτρο (shell). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מלען (awn, glume), לקלף (pare, shell, skin), קלפ" (bark, Hull, paring, Peel, rind, shell, skin, tegument). (various references) | |
Hungarian | hüvely (barrel, cod, Hull, placket, pod, scabbard, sheath, shuck, sleeve, vagina), héj (carapace, cod, crust, Hull, jacket, Peel, rind, scale, shell, shuck, skin), külső (aerial, appearance, barbican, exterior, external, extrinsic, facade, get-up, look, outside, peripheral, to externalize, to weather-board), burok (cod, hull, jacket, rind, sheath, shell, skin, tegument). (various references) | |
Indonesian | sekam (glume). (various references) | |
Italian | baccello (Hull, pod, shuck). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 粗皮 (bark, untanned pelt), 殻 (chaff, hull, shell), 殻 (chaff, hull, shell), 外被 (crust, hull, investment, outer skin or layer, rind), 外皮 (crust, hull, investment, outer skin or layer, rind). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | がいひ (crust, hull, investment, outer skin or layer, rind), から (chaff, emptiness, hull, shell), あらかわ (bark, untanned pelt). (various references) | |
Manx | skilley (shell, shelling, shuck, shucking, squill; husking), lhiannag (flake, lamella), fynneig (pod), crottal (lichen), bleayst (bang, body, crust, gill cover, hull, shell, shield). (various references) | |
Norwegian | skrelle, skall, pille (pill). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uskhay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | casca (bark, bread crust, coat, cockleboat, crust, hull, peel, piecrust, rind, scale, shell, shuck, skin). (various references) | |
Romanian | hoaspã, pleavã (chaff, tailing), pãstaie (Hull, legume, pod, shell, shuck), dezghioca (Hull, Peel, shell), descoji (bark, decorticate, Hull, Peel, rind, scalp, shell, skin), decortica (decorticate, Hull, shell), coji (bark, disbark, excoriate, exfoliate, parings, pill, rind, skin, strip), coajã (bark, cortex, crust, Hull, jacket, leather, peeling, rind, scale, scurf, shell, skin). (various references) | |
Russian | что-л. внешнее, шелуха (aril, glume, pod, shuck), шелушить шелуха (shuck). (various references) | |
Scottish | plaosg (a husk, burst from the husk, empty shell, open the eyes, outer skin, skin), mogul (a husk, as of nut; mesh, interstice of), cochull (also coich, hood). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | mahuna (legume, pod, shuck), ljuska (hull, jacket, peel, peeling, pod, rind, scale, shell, sherd, shuck, squama), ljuštiti (pare, peel, shell, shuck, spelt), komiti (shuck), komina (rape, shuck), guliti (peel, quaff, strip). (various references) | |
Spanish | cáscara (bark, hull, peel, rind, shell, shuck, skin), vaina (pod, scabbard, seedcase, sheath, shell, shuck, take). (various references) | |
Sranan | buba (bark, peel, shell, skin). (various references) | |
Swahili | ganda (bark, peel, shell). (various references) | |
Swedish | skida (Hull, pod, pod to a bean, scabbard, sheath, sheathe, siliqua, ski), skal (coat, hull, integument, jacket, parings, Peel, peeling, peelings, rind, shell, shells, shuck, skin), agn (bait, glume, gudgeon, ledger-bait). (various references) | |
Thai | แกลบ (chaff), เอาเปลือกออก. (various references) | |
Turkish | kabuk (bark, carapace, coat, cockle, cockleshell, cortes, covering, crust, encrustation, eschar, Hull, incrustation, integument, jacket, mantle, nutshell, Peel, pod, rind, scab, scale, scurf, shell, shuck, skin, squama), kabuğunu soymak (bark, decorticate, Hull, pare, Peel, peel off, pod, remove the skin, shell, shuck, skin, skin out), kabuğunu ayıklamak, kılıf (case, casing, cover, dust cover, envelope, fig leaf, garment, guise, sheath, slipcover, tick, Tunica, vagina). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | стручок (follicle, pod), лущити (desquamate, pod, scale, shell, shuck, spelt), лушпайка (aril, cod), плівка (film, lamina, pellicle). (various references) | |
Welsh | rhuchen (film, pellicle), plisgyn (pod, shell), plisgo (shell), eisin (bran), cibyn (half a bushel, shell), cib (pod). (various references) | |
Yucatec | sool (bark, peel, shell). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | nosogenum:Dictyocaulis vivipar, paleae, palearum, paleas, paleis. (various references) |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | lobus. (various references) |
| Arabic | 500-Modern | qirat. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | escale. (various references) |
| Middle Dutch | 1100-1500 | huuskyn. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Numbers Chapter 6, Verse 4 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | PasaV taV hmeraV thV euchV autou apo pantwn osa ginetai ex ampelou oinon apo stemfulwn ewV gigartou ou fagetai |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Cunctis diebus quibus ex voto Domino consecrantur quicquid ex vinea esse potest ab uva passa usque ad acinum non comedent |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Alle the daies in the which of auowe to the Lord thei ben sacryd; what thing may be of vyn, of grape dried vnto the popyn, thei shulen not eete. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Moreouer he shall eate nothyng yt is made of the vynetre no not so moch as ye cornels or the huske of the grape. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the husk. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine-tree, from the kernels even to the husk. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | All the time he is separate he may take nothing made from the grape-vine, from its seeds to its skin. |
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| Language | Numbers Chapter 6, Verse 4 |
| Cebuano | Sa tanan nga adlaw sa iyang pagka-Nazareo siya dili magkaon bisan unsa nga binuhat gikan sa parras, sukad sa unod hangtud sa panit sa bunga. |
| Croatian | Sve vrijeme svoga nazireata ne smije jesti ništa što raða lozov trs - od zelena grožða do komine.' |
| Danish | så længe hans Indvielse varer, må han intet som helst nyde, der kommer af Vinstokken, hverken umodne Druer eller friske Skud. |
| Dutch | Al de dagen van zijn Nazireerschap zal hij niet eten van iets, dat van den wijnstok des wijns gemaakt is, van de kernen af tot de basten toe. |
| Finnish | Niin kauan kuin hänen nasiirilupauksensa kestää, älköön hän syökö mitään, mikä viiniköynnöksestä saadaan, älköön edes raakiloita tai köynnösten versoja. |
| French | Pendant tout le temps de son naziréat, il ne mangera rien de ce qui provient de la vigne, depuis les pépins jusqu` la peau du raisin. |
| German | Solange solch ein Gelübde währt, soll er nichts essen, das man vom Weinstock macht, vom Weinkern bis zu den Hülsen. |
| Haitian Creole | Pandan tout tan l'ap viv apa pou Bondye tankou yon nazareyen an, li pa gen dwa manje anyen ki soti nan pye rezen, pa menm grenn rezen an ak po a. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Selama segala hari ia seorang nazir jangan dimakannya barang sesuatu yang datang dari pada pokok anggur, jikalau biji atau kulitnya sekalipun. |
| Italian | Per tutto il tempo del suo nazireato non manger alcun prodotto della vigna, dai chicchi acerbi alle vinacce. |
| Maori | I nga ra katoa e wehea ai ia kaua ia e kai i tetahi mea no te waina te mea i hanga ai, ahakoa nganga, ahakoa peha. |
| Norwegian | Så lenge hans innvielse varer, skal han ikke ete noget av det som tillages av vintreet, like fra kjerne til skall. |
| Portuguese | Por todos os dias do seu nazireado não comerá de coisa alguma que se faz da uva, desde os caroços até as cascas. |
| Rumanian | Kn tot timpul nazireatului lui, sq nu mqnknce nimic care vine din viyq, dela skmburi pknq la pieliya strugurelui. |
| Russian | ЧП ЧУЕ "ОЙ ОБЪПТЕКУФЧБ УЧПЕЗП ОЕ "ПМЦЕО ПО ЕУФШ ОЙЮЕЗП, ЮФП "ЕМБЕФУС ЙЪ ЧЙОПЗТБ"Б, ПФ ЪЕТЕО "П ЛПЦЙ. |
| Spanish | Durante todo el tiempo de su nazareato no comerá nada que provenga de la vid, desde las semillas hasta el hollejo. |
| Swedish | Så länge hans nasirtid varar, skall han icke äta något som kommer av vinträdet, icke ens dess kartar eller späda skott. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "husk": husked, husker, huskers, huskie, huskier, huskies, huskiest, huskily, huskiness, huskinesses, husking, huskings, husklike, husks, husky. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "husk": cornhusk, unhusk. (additional references) | |
Words containing "husk": cornhusker, cornhuskers, cornhusking, cornhuskings, cornhusks, unhusked, unhusking, unhusks. (additional references) | |
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"Husk" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: chusk, Eusko, fusk, gusk, Honsik, Hosek, hrusk, Huckg, Huesca, huk, Humko, hurk, hus, husa, huska, huske, hust, husz, huus, huz, Hyuk, jusk, nusk, usc. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "husk" (pronounced hu"sk) |
| 3 | -u" s k | brusque, Busk, Cusk, dusk, musk, Rusk, tusk. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "h-k-s-u" | |
-2 letters: sh, uh, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "h-k-s-u" | |
+1 letter: hucks, hulks, hunks, husks, husky, shuck. | |
+2 letters: ankush, chucks, chunks, haikus, hokums, husked, husker, huskie, khoums, shmuck, shrunk, shucks, sukkah, thunks, unhusk. | |
+3 letters: bohunks, buckish, chabuks, chukars, chukkas, duskish, hookups, huckles, hunkers, hunkies, huskers, huskier, huskies, huskily, husking, kahunas, kashrut, kiaughs, kiddush, kurbash, muzhiks, puckish, punkahs, punkish, schmuck, shakeup, shmucks, shucked, shucker, sukkahs, sukkoth, unhooks, unhusks. | |
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