unhusked
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of unhusk
adj
Without a husk.
Example Sentences
- "For 1975 they would range from 240 million to 259 million tons, depending on husked or unhusked variety."
- "In late-imperial Jiaxing, the seed-to-yield ratio for unhusked rice sown to unhusked rice reaped was, as a measure of volume, between 1:45 and 1:51 in good years for the better farmers."
- "Table II-4 calculates the returns that a peasant could obtain from 1000m² of sawah in 1993 with the premise that yields per hectare were 60 quintals of gabah basah (unhusked paddy containing approximately 25 percent of moisture)."
- "see also barley, barley, husked, barley, unhusked (naked), barley (pressed), bone meal, bran, calf fattening mixed feed, coconut, ..."
- "Lesser unhusked paddies translates into a high degree of hulling requirement while small amount of broken rice means good performance as well as good rice quality."
- "Jerking the ears and storing them unhusked is a method of harvesting employed in some sections, especially in the South, where the argument usually given in its favor is that if the husks are on the ears they are more protected from the grain weevil."
Etymology
From unhusk + -ed.
Inflected Forms
more unhusked (comparative)
most unhusked (superlative)