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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Having a cortex or a similar specialized outer layer.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Having a cortex; coated with bark or a bark-like covering; having a rind, as an orange.
  2. Pertaining to or having the characters of the Corticata.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Sheathed in bark or in a cortex.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Having a special outer covering of a nature unlike the interior part.

Examples

  • “I also have a fuzzy impression that if your OpenVPN server uses a certificate from a third party CA, then anyone else with a corticate from that CA can also connect.”

    The FreeBSD Diary

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  • gangerh I've developed a corticate roughness,
    A cover like bark, and a toughness
    To thwart the attacks
    Of my foes—but relax.
    There's a softie beneath all this gruffness
    (Chris Doyle)
    May 15, 2009

‘corticate’ has been looked up 429 times, added to 5 lists, commented on 1 time, and has a Scrabble score of 13.