peeled
/piːld/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.34 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of peel
Example Sentences
- "The peeled fruit quickly turned brown."
- "He stirred the campfire stew with a peeled stick, so the bark wouldn't get in it."
- "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."