desiccative

Such seemingly desiccative subjects may soon find breath in Robin Cook's novel "Fatal Cure," scheduled for publication in January.

Sissy is the moral victor of the story, as her children have also escaped the desiccative education of the Gradgrind school and grown learned in "childish lore."

In pre-modern medicine, cadmia was used as a desiccative and detersive, in moist stinking ulcers, causing the area to become healed by the formation of scar tissue.

Existing in a region of Sol III's North American continent called the Great Basin, she read, the twelve-thousand-hectare desert formed during the final desiccative phases of an ancient inland lake.