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Exsiccate vs Exsiccata - What's the difference?

exsiccate | exsiccata |

As a verb exsiccate

is to dry, to desiccate, to dehydrate.

As a noun exsiccata is

dried specimen material such as those in a herbarium.

exsiccate

English

Verb

(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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    exsiccata

    English

    Noun

    (exsiccatae)
  • Dried specimen material such as those in a herbarium

    • References

    * Exsiccatae of the Bryophytes of Taiwan, Shan-Hsiung Lin, The Bryologist, Vol. 84 , No. 3 (Autumn, 1981), pp. 359-362 ----