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desiccated
/ˈdɛsəkeɪtəd/
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What does desiccated mean?
verb
- simple past and past participle of desiccate
adjective
- dried
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈdɛsəkeɪtəd/
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Shortly we came out on stumbly hills, mostly rock, very dry, grown with cactus and discouraged desiccated thorn scrub.
I do the same with the desiccated corpses of the cockchafer, the Capricorn, or Cerambyx beetle, and the Cetonia, or rosechafer.
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Without irrigation, most of the plant's water supply is obtained by expansion into new earth that hasn't been desiccated by other competing roots.
In a word, the victims of Cerceris, far from being desiccated or putrefied, were found in a state of integrity which was altogether paradoxical.
The desiccated loaf remained swathed up in the scullery.