peeled

P3E1E1L1E1D2
/piːld/

adjective

With the outermost layer or skin removed.

“The peeled fruit quickly turned brown.”

Opposite
Less commonScrabble 9

Meanings

peeled1

adjectivepeeled (not comparable)
  1. not comparableWith the outermost layer or skin removed.

    The peeled fruit quickly turned brown.

    1 more example

    He stirred the campfire stew with a peeled stick, so the bark wouldn't get in it.

    Antonyms: unpeeled

  2. not comparablebodybuildingDieted down such as having attained a peak contrast of trained muscle volume.
verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of peel

peeled2

adjectivepeeled (not comparable)
  1. not comparablerareHaving a peel; (in combination) having the specified type of peel.

    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.

    1958 June, J. Henry Burke, Citrus Industry of Chile (Foreign Agricultural Report; 108), page 14
    3 more examples

    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.

    1995, Agricultural Bulletin of the Malay Peninsula, volume 47, page 109

    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.

    2014, David Zinczenko, Matt Goulding, Cook This, Not That! Skinny Comfort Foods, New York, N.Y.: Galvanized Books, →ISBN

    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.

    2021, Simon Goisser, Suitability of Portable NIR Sensors (Food-Scanners) for the Determination of Fruit Quality Along the Supply Chain Using the Example of Tomatoes, Cuvillier Verlag, →ISBN, page 15

    Synonyms: peely

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveWith the outermost layer or skin removed.

Opposite

adjectiveHaving a peel; (in combination) having the specified type of peel.

Similar

More synonyms by meaning

adjective(used informally) completely unclothed

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

peeled · adjective, verb

From peel (verb) + -ed (suffix forming past tenses).

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peeled · adjective

From peel (noun) + -ed (“having”).

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Translations

French pelé
  • peléwith outer layer removed
Norwegian Bokmål skrellet
  • skrelletwith outer layer removed
Tagalog talop
  • talopwith outer layer removed

Rhymes & wordplay

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