The road south from Tripoli is a study in desiccation. From Wordnik.com. [Tea in the Sahara: a road trip through the Libyan desert] Reference
Palatine points to the gradual desiccation of the spot. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood] Reference
In this way, casuarinas avoid desiccation in dry areas. From Wordnik.com. [3. The Plants] Reference
In about two months the process of desiccation was completed. From Wordnik.com. [Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before] Reference
I feel the same way about the desiccation of positive symbols. From Wordnik.com. [The Spiritual State: Harry Windsor and the Prisoners of Ignorance] Reference
The physical disinfectants are sunlight, desiccation, and heat. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI)] Reference
Finally, prevention of desiccation of the graft is obtained by waxing. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting New York City, September 3, 4 and 5, 1924] Reference
I could not expect the extent (ph) behavior, especially (INAUDIBLE) on desiccation. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 7, 2006] Reference
It has been shown that it is at once arrested, and indeed destroyed, by desiccation. From Wordnik.com. [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference
The dried up body desiccation thing was easy to explain ... have you ever held a baby bird?. From Wordnik.com. [fishbuttocks Diary Entry] Reference
Certain plants, however, have the seemingly miraculous ability to recover from desiccation. From Wordnik.com. [12. Tef] Reference
Inoculant should be protected from heat, light and desiccation and used as soon as possible. From Wordnik.com. [6: Soil health and plant nutrition] Reference
There are plants in which the tissues themselves can withstand much desiccation without dying. From Wordnik.com. [28 additional technical notes about tropical agriculture] Reference
Limits the locomotion of stored cereal insects and bruchids and causes death through desiccation. From Wordnik.com. [4. Farm and village level storage] Reference
In these it is carefully and skilfully turned about over a slow fire, until desiccation is complete. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands] Reference
The presence of trees can reduce wind speed, which in turn will reduce soil desiccation and erosion. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 6] Reference
This possibly shields them from stresses-salinity, desiccation, herbicides, or pestilence, for example. From Wordnik.com. [4 Questions and Answers] Reference
In this way it is possible to prevent the plaster from hardening, as a result of too quick a desiccation. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885] Reference
Rows of "motor cells" in the leaves cause the rolling action and provide this unusual method of reducing desiccation. From Wordnik.com. [7. Sorghum] Reference
Treatment of xerophthalmia: reduced night vision, desiccation (drying) and ulceration of the cornea, Bitot's spots. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 4] Reference
This captured moisture allows crops to flourish when those in unprotected neighboring fields are lost to desiccation. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 23] Reference
They have high desiccation tolerance and are able to survive water loss of more than 95% and long periods of drought. From Wordnik.com. [General characteristics of arctic species and their adaptations in the context of changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation levels] Reference
Care must be taken during this desiccation to pulverize the salt every day in an iron mortar, so as to renew the surface. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886] Reference
Tree shade decreases soil desiccation and offers a pleasant and more productive environment for animals and farm workers. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 6] Reference
For covering the entire graft in order to avoid desiccation grafting waxes had to be applied in melted form with a brush. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting New York City, September 3, 4 and 5, 1924] Reference
A crystalline wax is not desirable because it cracks and permits the air to enter and we have a desiccation of the scion. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fourteenth Annual Meeting Washington D.C. September 26, 27 and 28 1923] Reference
This desiccation is the cause of the playa landscapes and the brackish to hypersaline waters that are found in some areas. From Wordnik.com. [Saharan halophytics] Reference
When faced with desiccation they retreat deeper into the soil if there is oxygen and pore spaces large enough to move about. From Wordnik.com. [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference
The soldier assumed that the hermit had achieved this enviable state of desiccation by somehow keeping the aversion spell going. From Wordnik.com. [The Misenchanted Sword]
Generally longer survival in moist environment and under humid weather conditions, rapid die-off under conditions of desiccation. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 6] Reference
The theory of desiccation of Asia is not the Huntington theory, but I rely here upon arguments by J.G. Andersson and Sven Hedin.p. 10. From Wordnik.com. [A History of China] Reference
Upon the elevated Western plains of this continent, the bodies of beasts and men by thousands have been preserved from decomposition by desiccation. From Wordnik.com. [The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, No. 733, January 11, 1890] Reference
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