Definition of Desiccated

1. Adjective. Thoroughly dried out. "Dried-out boards beginning to split"

Exact synonyms: Dried-out
Similar to: Dry

2. Adjective. Preserved by removing natural moisture. "Shredded and desiccated coconut meat"
Exact synonyms: Dehydrated, Dried
Similar to: Preserved

3. Adjective. Lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless. "A prissy and emotionless creature...settles into a mold of desiccated snobbery"
Exact synonyms: Arid, Desiccate
Similar to: Dull

Definition of Desiccated

1. Verb. (past of desiccate) ¹

2. Adjective. dried ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Desiccated

1. desiccate [v] - See also: desiccate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Desiccated

deshieldings
deshopper
deshoppers
deshopping
deshuffle
deshuffled
deshuffles
deshuffling
deshydraemia
desi
desialylated
desialylation
desiccant
desiccants
desiccate
desiccated (current term)
desiccated coconut
desiccated liver
desiccated pituitary
desiccatedly
desiccates
desiccating
desiccation
desiccations
desiccative
desiccator
desiccators
desiccatory
desiderable
desiderata

Literary usage of Desiccated

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Source, Chemistry and Use of Food Products by Edgar Henry Summerfield Bailey (1914)
"desiccated Milk Special processes have recently been invented for evaporating milk to a dry powder. One of these consists of feeding the milk in a thin ..."

2. The Newer Knowledge of Nutrition: The Use of Food for the Preservation of by Elmer Verner McCollum (1922)
"desiccated Fruits and Vegetables Are of Little Value as Anti-scorbutic Foods.—Much interest has centered upon the question of the merits of desiccated and ..."

3. The Sanitarian by Medico-Legal Society of New York (1903)
"desiccated MILK AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME. In our December number we published a report by Robert SS Bergh, US Consul at Gothenberg, from the State ..."

4. Infant Feeding and Its Influence on Life, Or, The Causes and Prevention of by Charles Henry Felix Routh (1879)
"Something like a substitute may be found, however, in the employment of desiccated milks, to which if water in proper proportions is added, ..."

5. Supplement to the Revised Statutes of the United States by United States, William Adams Richardson, George Anderson King, William Bruce King, Edwin Charles Brandenburg (1891)
"... for the ration of "two ounces of desiccated potatoes" six desiccated toma- ounces of desiccated tomatoes if he shall believe stich substitution toes for ..."

6. Camp Cookery by Horace Kephart (1910)
"desiccated Egg.—The baker's egg mentioned in my first chapter is in granules about ... Of course, the desiccated powder cannot be fried, boiled, or poached. ..."

7. Pharmaceutical and Food Analysis: A Manual of Standard Methods for the by Azor Thurston (1922)
"desiccated Eggs, Egg Powder, Dried Eggs. Eggs in this form are sold in large ... According to Federal Notices of Judgment, egg powder or desiccated egg is ..."

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