DESICCATION
\dˌɛsɪkˈe͡ɪʃən], \dˌɛsɪkˈeɪʃən], \d_ˌɛ_s_ɪ_k_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of DESICCATION
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- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William R. Warner
By Daniel Lyons
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The act of drying. The drying up of vegetable drugs is usually designated desiccation, the re- moval of the water of crystallization from salts is termed exsiccation. [Lat.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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basidiomycota
- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).