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n. The state or process of being desiccated

n. An act or occurrence of desiccating

n. The act of desiccating, or the state of being desiccated.

n. The act of making dry, or the state of being dry; the act or process of depriving of moisture; especially, the evaporation of the aqueous portion of a substance, as wood, meat, fruit, milk, etc., by artificial heat, as by a current of heated air.

n. the process of extracting moisture

n. dryness resulting from the removal of water

"The rdar and the bdar strains were found to be equally tolerant to disinfectants, while the rdar strain was found to be more tolerant to long-term desiccation and nutrient depletion in biofilm than the bdar strain."

waterlessness    xerotes    dryness   

desiccate    desiccant    desiccator   

desiccational   

Alsatian    Americanization    Appalachian    Balkanization    Christianization   

adipocere    plantcutter    compaction    corrugations    granduncle