Desiccation Definition

Desiccation Sentence Examples

• During their removal it is important that the roots be covered, if only to prevent desiccation by the air.

• Modern travellers bear witness to a gradual progress of desiccation in the Tibetan uplands.

• The desiccation of the rivers of Russia has been often attributed to the steady destruction of its forests.

• The area of the lake is shrinking owing to the progressive desiccation of the country, Saharan climate and conditions replacing those of the Sudan.

• The growth of an organic being is simply a process of enlargement, as a particle of dry gelatine may be swelled up by the intussusception of water; its death is a shrinkage, such as the swelled jelly might undergo on desiccation.