Meanings
peeled1
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of peel
peeled2
- 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 143 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 109We 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, →ISBNTransmittance 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 15Synonyms: peely
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveWith the outermost layer or skin removed.
adjectiveHaving a peel; (in combination) having the specified type of peel.
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).
Full word history & related roots →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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peeled. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/peeled
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