desiccated
Americanadjective
adjective
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dehydrated and powdered
desiccated coconut
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lacking in spirit or animation
Other Word Forms
- undesiccated adjective
Etymology
Origin of desiccated
Example Sentences
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He was “working with the new FDA,” he said in a LinkedIn post in November, to remove from the market desiccated thyroid extracts, a product critical to another company led by Tang, American Laboratories Holdings.
His latest book’s rather desiccated title led me to believe it would mount some dry defense of religion in general.
Oregon’s Lake Abert has repeatedly dried up, and biologists have found that when it’s desiccated, more phalaropes fly farther south to Mono Lake.
From Los Angeles Times
Prof Rein's research finds that, after ten consecutive days of very dry weather, vegetation becomes so desiccated across wide areas that the likelihood of multiple fires igniting simultaneously rises sharply.
From BBC
Owens Lake was left desiccated after Los Angeles began tapping the eastern Sierra watershed for its own needs more than a century ago.
From Los Angeles Times
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