Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To denude.
- adjective Bare; denuded.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To strip; denude.
- In botany, deprived of covering, as of foliage or pubescence; naked; glabrate.
- In zoology, destitute of scales, hair, or other covering; nude: specifically, in entomology, said of the wings of Lepidoptera when they are clear in parts, appearing as if the scales had been rubbed off.
- In geology, denuded.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb Obs. or R. To denude.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete, rare To
denude .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb lay bare
- adjective without the natural or usual covering
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Latin dēnūdāre, dēnūdāt-; see denude.]
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Latin denudatus, past participle of denudare. See denude.
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