desiccated

UK/ˈdɛsɪkeɪtəd/

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Desiccated means completely dried out. Desiccated coconut, a desiccated leaf, desiccated soil.

In food it means dried to a powder or shreds for keeping, as desiccated coconut is. Of a person it is unkind and means dried up in spirit, which is the sense in most literary uses.

Definitions of desiccated

1adjectivedesiccatedCompletely dried out.C1
“The desiccated leaves crumbled to dust in my hand.”

desiccated is a state.

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desiccated in the wild

A lamington is an Australian cake made from squares of butter cake or sponge cake coated in an outer layer of chocolate sauce and rolled in desiccated coconut.
Lamington
Food drying is a method of food preservation in which food is dried (dehydrated or desiccated).
Food drying
There is also a Cape Malay version of the dish, which is a fried ball of dough that is rolled in desiccated coconut called a koesister.
Koeksister
Franklin Baker Company is a manufacturer and exporter of desiccated and processed coconut products in the United States and internationally, established in 1897.
Franklin Baker Company
Some of these species enter a dormant state when desiccated, and some species are thought to survive for over 250 million years.
Hypersaline lake

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