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dessicator

dessicator is the misspelling of desiccator.

Meaning of desiccator

Noun

desiccator (plural desiccators)

  1. A closed glass vessel containing a desiccant (such as silica gel) used in laboratories for drying materials or for keeping them dry.
    • Shirley walks past laboratories filled with petri dishes and desiccators, microscopes and pipettes2019, Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other, Penguin Books (2020), page 219
  2. A machine for drying fruit, milk, etc., usually by the aid of heat; an evaporator.

Questions about dessicator

What is dessicator the misspelling of?
Dessicator is the misspelling of desiccator.

Words near dessicator in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dessicator (page history and authors); desiccator (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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