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Definition of Exsiccates
1. exsiccate [v] - See also: exsiccate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exsiccates
Literary usage of Exsiccates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1909)
"... and when possible to some set of exsiccates, and conclude with records of
American localities to which are added the distributions in other parts of the ..."
2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1881)
"... some of our species, is making arrangements for enlarging the scheme of his
exsiccates and illustrations so as to include the South American species. ..."
3. Resolves, Divine, Moral and Political by Owen Felltham (1840)
"... and is the end of all—that everything labours to make the thing it meets with
like itself. Fire converts all to fire. Air exsiccates and draws to ..."
4. Gallus: Or, Roman Scenes of the Time of Augustus. With Notes and Excursuses by Wilhelm Adolf Becker (1903)
"... quas furtim es~ sent exsiccates. [Pers. Sat. vi. 17 ; Martial ix. 88.] In Plaut.
Mil. iii. 2, it is otherwise. ..."
5. Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue by Robert Ellis, Great Britain Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, London Great exhibition of the works of industry of all nations, 1851 (1851)
"It soon exsiccates, and falls in the form of irregular tears ; and during December,
January, February, ..."
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