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nature's gift wrap, abandoned the instant the good part shows up
means The dry outer covering of a seed or fruit — and, by extension, the empty shell of anything once its substance is gone.
from From Middle English husk, likely a diminutive of hus, the old word for 'house' (the same root that gives us 'house' itself). The logic is homely and exact: a husk is the little house a seed lives in. The word has Germanic cousins — Dutch huls and German Hülse both mean 'pod' or 'shell' — all clustering around the same idea of a thing wrapped in its own modest dwelling.
- corn coats
- husks once stuffed mattresses across rural America
- sound word
- a husky voice is dry like an empty shell
- coconut armor
- husk fibers become rope, brushes, doormats
- tamale wrap
- corn husks steam masa without ever being eaten
- word root
- likely from old Dutch meaning little house
corn husk tamales — traditional mexican dish where masa is wrapped and cooked in dried corn husks
husk tomato — physalis plant with papery husk around berry, grown throughout americas and asia
husk moth — cucullia species moths whose larvae feed on plants and are camouflaged like husks