The Collaborative International Dictionary
Corticate
Corticate \Cor"ti*cate\ (k?r"t?-k?t), Corticated \Cor"ti*ca`ted\ (-k?`t?d), a. [L. corticatus.] Having a special outer covering of a nature unlike the interior part.
Wiktionary
corticate
a. sheathed in bark or in a cortex.
Usage examples of "corticate".
This is probably also the place to mention Hal's older brother Mario's khaki-colored skin, an odd dead gray-green that in its corticate texture and together with his atrophic in-curled arms and arachnodactylism gave him, particularly from a middle-distance, an almost uncannily reptilian/ dinosaurian look.