dessication

Although desert plants go a long way toward trying it, no plant survives complete dessication.

Among prevailing theories is that they provide protection against sun, frost or dessication.

They also provide a physical barrier against larger molecules and may prevent dessication of the bacteria.

"But there's no dessication like a mummy would have.

Helping them in this respect is their hard exoskeleton, which reduces the loss of water (dessication).

The aridness, the dessication, the lifelessness of everything about was somehow shocking.

Its stalks were lavender, but he had no idea if that was a sign of recent dessication or its normal color in death.

To the lushness of vegetation fed by ocean moisture, not sucked dry into dessication.

Since its eggs are not resistant to dessication, this species is restricted to swampy regions with plenty of water.

Some species in this genus are poikilochlorophyllous plants and are dessication tolerant.

When subjected to starvation or dessication, some bivalves have been known to re-ingest this organ.

"Thick-coated cells, resistant to heat, dessication, and long-term starvation.

Coleochloa setifera is a sedge resistant to dessication found in South Africa.

Due to it's ability to survive on artificial surfaces and resist dessication, it can remain and possibly infect new patients for some time.

A cellar, well-ventilated attic or frost-free shed is ideal, whereas inhabited rooms are usually too warm and encourage early dessication.

Her senses were able to discern the natural texture of their wood, the sapless dessication in their hearts, the black and immemorial death of their upraised limbs.

Even on stone one can find liverish rock-tripe which is edible if one dries it to complete dessication before soaking it again to make a soup or broth.

Mr. Moulle, a keen hunter, suggested that the brining method would be especially well suited to wild turkey, which is even more prone to dessication during conventional cooking than domesticated birds.

One of these is an LEA protein, which has a protective function that prevents other proteins from agglutinating during the dessication process; the other one helps to maintain the cell membrane.

In the wild, most succumb to encounters with the hazards of their environment - slapping hands or insect-feeding bats or spider webs or dessication, should they find themselves out and about in the midday sun.

At these times the plants are at risk of death from dessication because their dark-colored leaves warm up, more of their stored water turns to vapor, and they lose moisture to the colder and drier surrounding air.

In fact, he goes back to Las Vegas with her to die, his condition simply a personal metaphor for inexorable dessication by the desert everyone lives in, which all the glittery pretense of the Vegas strip cannot conceal.

I have attained to well-nigh absolute knowledge and masterdom; and there is no longer anything in the universe for me to fear, aside from the inevitable process of dehydration and dessication which Mars is slowly undergoing, like all other aging planets.