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exsiccant

exsiccant adjective: having the quality of drying up; causing a drying up.

Adjective

exsiccant (comparative more exsiccant, superlative most exsiccant)

  1. Having the quality of drying up; causing a drying up.

Noun

exsiccant (plural exsiccants)

  1. A medicine that causes drying up.
    • Dried alum is used solely as an exsiccant and mild caustic1894, Arthur Albert Stevens, A Manual of Therapeutics

exsiccant meaning in Tamil

exsiccant in Tamil

வாட்டி, உணக்கி

Forms of exsiccant

Adjective
comparativemore exsiccant
superlativemost exsiccant
Noun
pluralexsiccants

Origin of exsiccant

From Latin exsiccans, present participle of exsiccare. See exsiccate.

Questions about exsiccant

What does exsiccant mean?
Exsiccant means having the quality of drying up; causing a drying up.
What is exsiccant in Tamil?
Exsiccant in Tamil is வாட்டி, உணக்கி. See Exsiccant meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is exsiccant?
Exsiccant can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near exsiccant in the dictionary

  1. exsheath
  2. exsheathed
  3. exsheathment
  4. exsheathments
  5. exship
  6. exsiccant
  7. exsiccants
  8. exsiccata
  9. exsiccatae
  10. exsiccate
  11. exsiccated

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Adapted from Wiktionary: exsiccant (page history and authors); exsiccant (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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