Dessication

This process, called dessication, "is more than just drying up," Mancinelli said. ❋ Lisa Grossman (2010)

I don’t know if BCP are vulnerable to drought or winter dessication, which is the same thing, different seasonal process. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The authors said their findings are conservative, since there is insufficient information to account for additional stressors like pharmaceutical pollution, mining wastes and massive water diversions that have led to the dessication of many great rivers including the Colorado in the western United States, the Indus in Pakistan, the Yellow in China, and the Nile in Egypt. ❋ Lori Pottinger (2010)

Or is it like dessication - flaking dead on the sheets ❋ Penny Goring (2011)

'The Son of No One' Anchor Bay Films Channing Tatum and James Ransone in 'The Son of No One' It's understandable that Dito Montiel, being a filmmaker, would have an affinity for pre-Giuliani New York: The chaos, crime and dessication of a place consuming itself is far more cinematic than a well-ordered metropolis. ❋ John Anderson (2011)

That last one looks like it has a wide assortment of fruits and vegetables in various stages of dessication, plus whatever those erect things in the middle may be sausages? chocolate-covered bananas? really ugly cucumbers? ❋ Unknown (2010)

It was the dessication that I'd come to associate with youth. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This is because they can survive total dessication which fragments their genome. ❋ Unknown (2009)

At this same locality I also found several horizons of dessication mudcracks, synaeresis mudcracks, and wave-form ripples. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Dinosaur dissenter spews more dessication from his Jurassic theological wind-bags. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Where Buckler's mummy was basically a big guy in bandages, Mayerik's is more monstrous, showing signs of dessication and decay, and doing a lot more shambling. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Aerogel also has a strong dessication effect, absorbing moisture strongly enough to cause “burns” on human skin after prolonged contact. ❋ Unknown (2008)

A fanatic for dessication in his drinks, Hemingway allowed no sugar in his Daiquiris. ❋ Unknown (2008)

These dessication-resistant stages are the primarily means of dispersal. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The eggs are resistant to dessication, freezing, and ingestion by birds. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Although Bey Nye's makeup suggests dessication and age, there's an innocence about the flyman, a seemingly complete inability to understand why this is happening, that makes him seem like a child. ❋ Arbogast (2008)

Medieval mementi mori represented death and physical corruption as a process of dessication: a turning into dust, ‘ashes to ashes’, ‘from dust you art and to dust you shall return’ and so on. ❋ Adam Roberts Project (2007)

There are two very interesting animals, that can resist almost anything dessication, high temperatures, extreme heat, and come back to life in some conditions. ❋ Dennis (2007)