desiccation

It is used as a model organism in studies of desiccation.

What humor he had was dry to the point of desiccation.

It takes a few billion years of desiccation to produce the genuine article.

For centuries, people have lived here, on the brink of desiccation.

There was a monkish air about the place, a kind of military desiccation.

Top growth can show obvious problems: desiccation, rot and disease.

Due to the continual risk of desiccation, often only a few hours per day are available for finding food.

When the sun rose, it wore a cloak of desiccation.

Once plants had reached the land, there were two approaches to dealing with desiccation.

At higher powered applications, full desiccation of tissue is possible.

Although they do not grow during the cold period, their leaves are subject to desiccation from sun and winds.

Dry to a total desiccation - no great step?

Therefore sometimes very little water runs and the brook is threatened by desiccation.

Mud curls form during one of the final stages in desiccation.

It can recover from desiccation (loss of water) and starvation.

With the gradual desiccation of the Sahara, they headed south.

This desiccation has resulted in an almost Bonsai like effect.

This adaptation helps it avoid desiccation during the dry season.

This system has most likely evolved in small ancestors to help resist desiccation.

"We store them in a desiccation box to keep them fresh."

Desiccation will be brought about where the fluid element should predominate.

They can prevent desiccation by hiding under logs and stones.

Others seem intact, but thinner than desiccation alone would account for."

It is regenerative, but caught up in a continual process of desiccation.

The egg hatches after about 27 hours, and is prone to desiccation.