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the wrapper nature invented before humans pretended packaging was a new idea
means To strip the outer skin, rind, or layer off something (or, of skin and surfaces, to come off in flakes or sheets).
from From Old English 'pilian,' to strip off skin or rind, drawn from Latin 'pilare,' to remove hair (from 'pilus,' a hair) — the same family that gives us 'depilatory.' The fruit-and-vegetable sense and the noun 'peel' for the rind grew up together with the verb. A separate but tangled cousin, 'peel' meaning to plunder or pillage, comes from Latin 'pilare' in its 'to pluck/rob' guise, and English long muddled the two spellings before settling things down.
- banana boost
- Banana peels are edible and rich in potassium
- slip hazard
- Slipping on a peel won a real Ig Nobel
- orange oils
- Citrus peel oil dissolves Styrofoam on contact
- word twist
- Peel also means to undress, slang since 1700s
- compost gold
- Peels feed soil better than most fertilizers
emma peel — character from the 1960s british tv series the avengers, played by diana rigg
john peel — legendary bbc radio 1 dj who hosted shows from 1967 to 2004
robert peel — british prime minister 1834-1835 and 1841-1846, founded the modern police force