🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

cáscara

Pronunciation / Transliteration: cáscara

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Peel/piːl/
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"Tira la cáscara de plátano."

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1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    The outer skin of a fruit or vegetable.

    "Discard the orange peel before eating."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The word 'peel' originates from the Old English 'pilian', which means to strip off or remove the outer layer. It has evolved through Middle English, maintaining its core meaning related to removing skin or outer covering from fruits and vegetables.

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