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- Dictionarypeel/piːl/
verb
- 1. remove the outer covering or skin from (a fruit or vegetable): "she watched him peel an apple with deliberate care" Similar
- 2. (of a surface or object) lose parts of its outer layer or covering in small strips or pieces: "the walls are peeling" Similar
noun
- 1. the outer covering or rind of a fruit or vegetable: "pieces of potato peel"
- 2. an act of exfoliating dead skin in the cosmetic treatment of microdermabrasion.
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PEEL definition: 1. to remove the skin of fruit and vegetables: 2. If a layer or covering peels, it slowly comes…. Learn more.
noun (1) 1. : the skin or rind of a fruit or vegetable. banana/lemon/potato peels. 2. : a thin layer of organic material that is embedded in a film of collodion and stripped from the surface of an object (such as a plant fossil) for microscopic study. 3. : chemical peel. peel.
Peel means to pull or strip off the natural external covering or protection of something: to peel an orange, a potato. Pare is used of trimming off chips, flakes, or superficial parts from something, as well as of cutting off the skin or rind: to pare the nails; to pare a potato.
peel means to pull or strip off the natural external covering or protection of something: to peel an orange, a potato. pare is used of trimming off chips, flakes, or superficial parts from something, as well as of cutting off the skin or rind: to pare the nails; to pare a potato.
PEEL definition: 1. to remove the skin of fruit or vegetables: 2. If you peel something from a surface, you remove…. Learn more.
(pēl) n. 1. The skin or rind of certain fruits and vegetables. 2. A chemical peel. v. peeled, peel·ing, peels. v.tr. 1. To strip or cut away the skin, rind, or bark from; pare. 2. To strip away; pull off: peeled the label from the jar. v.intr. 1. To lose or shed skin, bark, or other covering. 2.
A peel is the covering of a fruit or vegetable. Some peels are thick and easy to remove, like an orange peel, while others might be more stubborn, like the thin peel on a potato. When you remove an apple peel or the peel of an eggplant, you peel it.
