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Plural of peel

regular plural

The plural of peel is peels.

Forms of peel

Singularpeel /piːl/
Pluralpeels /piːlz/
Countablecountable and uncountable

Peels in a sentence

  • She peels back her bra exposing ripe melonic breasts and demands her hall mirror to take notice.2010, Allen L. Scarbrough, The Sparrow Sings of Worlds Unknown, →ISBN, page 31. From the entry melonic
  • The peels are removed mostly with wet peelers, using lye solutions or high-pressure steam.2002, George D. Saravacos, Athanasios E. Kostaropoulos, Handbook of Food Processing Equipment, →ISBN, page 253. From the entry peeler
  • It is paper-thin and when old, peels away to reveal the richer-coloured young bark beneath.1987, Roy Lancaster, Garden Plants for Connoisseurs, Unwin Hyman, →ISBN, page 10. From the entry peely
  • A boy awakening under a plane-tree Whose bark peels every grade of green, With sunwings winking in-between?1984, Francis Scarfe, Grounds for Conceit, page 8. From the entry sunwing
  • Especially around the Christmas holidays, I often make candied orange, lemon, or grapefruit peels to give to friends.[2008, Jacques Pépin, “Grapefruit Suprémes”, in More Fast Food My Way, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN. From the entry orangette

Meaning of peel

  1. verb To remove the skin or outer covering of.
  2. verb To remove something from the outer or top layer of.
  3. verb To become detached, come away, especially in flakes or strips; to shed skin in such a way.

Full definition of peel

Questions about the plural of peel

What is the plural of peel?
The plural of peel is peels.
Is peel countable?
Peel is a countable and uncountable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: peel (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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