(of food 食物 dried in order to preserve it 脱水的；干燥法保存的 desiccated coconut 椰子干
- (specialist)
completely dry 干涸的；枯竭的 treeless and desiccated soil 无树的荒芜干旱土地
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from Latin desiccat- ‘made thoroughly dry’, from the verb desiccare + -ed.