John Burroughs

A plump, well-fed stream is as satisfying to behold as a well-fed animal or a thrifty tree. One source of charm in the English landscape is the full, placid stream the season through; no desiccated watercourses will you see there, nor any feeble, decrepit brooks, hardly able to get over the ground.

American Author

Liz Truss

If we just had an election which is a kind of desiccated calculation, obviously I think the Conservatives have the best economic plans, but it is about more than that. It is about the overall person.

British Politician

Aneurin Bevan

I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.

Welsh Politician

David Shields

I am truly bored with 99 per cent of conventional novels. I do think it's a somewhat desiccated form.

Desiccated describes a physical state, often caused by extreme drying conditions.

Physical Change

Often used with 'coconut', 'soil', or 'remains' to describe their dryness.

Common Collocations

Indicates an extreme level of dryness, beyond simply 'dry'.

Intensity of Dryness

Used metaphorically to describe something lacking vitality or spirit.

Metaphorical Use

Conveys a sense of boredom or emptiness when referring to non-physical things.

Emotional Implication

Often used to criticize a lack of originality or creativity.

Criticism of Style

 reen, Yeah, so that right there, when those cells that have completely dried out and completely desiccated come into contact with water, they immediately activate and the chlorophyll activates inside. and immediately comes back and starts photosynthesizing, bringing them back to life an incredible drought resistant plant.

Spotting the World's...

 it calling it a milk and honey wilderness a land of a hundred green lagoons but you go there today and it's a pretty desiccated place of salt flats and mud flats from the lack of water so these are the two opening projects and with with these and with all other projects in the pipeline you'll see a

Sandra Postel: Troubled...

 but very much alive. And anything that is that dry and still alive, we call desiccation-tolerant. In the desiccated state, what seeds can do is lie in extremes of environment for prolonged periods of time. The next time the rainy season comes, they germinate and grow,

How we can make crops...

 to get the best that he can but it really isn't easy at all now the hyenas will be probably quite happy because there's a lot of both of these skeletons that are lying around or dried out wildebeest that have desiccated and so with this kind of rain it will just

Safari Live - Day 272 PIPE...

 against now I say the skin has been preserved it is a skin impression the actual tissues which made up the skin are gone it is left the impression on the mud sand sands which was sort of pushed up against what was probably a desiccated carcass it's almost

Grave Secrets of...

 that these microorganisms may still be active in the desiccated state, like walking mummies all around us, and that they may be using UV radiation as a source of energy. If confirmed, this would have a huge impact on our definition of life,

The most Martian place...

 everything is desiccated it's just all dried out but underneath that we see the soil is very different it's got carbon hydrogen nitrogen oxygen phosphorus so you probably be bringing that type of soil into an area that you then can

Growing Food on Mars PIPE...

 back together exactly as it was before. We have thousands of organisms that can do this. These organisms can be totally desiccated; they can live in a vacuum. I am absolutely certain that life can exist in outer space,

Craig Venter: On the...

 As Numberland’s best detective, you thought you’d seen it all. But the desiccated corpses of prominent natural numbers— whole numbers greater than 0— have been showing up all over the city for the past week.

Can you solve the...

 candor principal intelligence vision no evidence of paranoia my God my God how will the legions of mouldy desiccated