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exsiccants

exsiccants is the plural of exsiccant.

Meaning of exsiccant

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

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Questions about exsiccants

What is exsiccants the plural of?
Exsiccants is the plural of exsiccant.

Words near exsiccants in the dictionary

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

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