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dessication

dessication is the misspelling of desiccation.

Meaning of desiccation

Noun

desiccation (countable and uncountable, plural desiccations)

  1. (uncountable) The state or process of being desiccated.
  2. An act or occurrence of desiccating.
    • The most important mortality affecting the larval population was most probably caused by the repeated desiccations of the marsh in the summer.1968, M.W. Service, “The Ecology of the Immature Stages of Aedes detritus”, in Journal of Applied Ecology, volume 5, number 3

Questions about dessication

What is dessication the misspelling of?
Dessication is the misspelling of desiccation.

Words near dessication in the dictionary

  1. dessiatins
  2. dessiatiny
  3. dessicant
  4. dessicate
  5. dessicated
  6. dessication
  7. dessicator
  8. dessiccator
  9. dessin
  10. dessin d'enfant
  11. dessins

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dessication (page history and authors); desiccation (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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