Desiccated vs Exsiccated - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between desiccated and exsiccated

is that desiccated is (desiccate) while exsiccated is (exsiccate).

is dried.

(head)

(desiccate)

(en adjective)

dried

* desiccated coconut

(head)

(exsiccate)

(exsiccat)

To dry, to desiccate, to dehydrate.

*1982 , (TC Boyle), Water Music , Penguin 2006, p. 147:

*:The guinea hen, so nearly exsiccated a few days earlier, dangles limp once again, as wet as if it had been freshly slaughtered.

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