decorticate

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

decorticate
    v 1: remove the outer layer of; "decorticate a tree branch"
    2: remove the cortex of (an organ)

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Decorticate \De*cor"ti*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
   {Decorticated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Decorticating}.] [L.
   decorticatus, p. p. of decorticare to bark; de- + cortex
   bark.]
   To divest of the bark, husk, or exterior coating; to husk; to
   peel; to hull. "Great barley dried and decorticated."
   --Arbuthnot.
   [1913 Webster]