exsiccant

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adjective

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

OriginLatin exsiccans →
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Meanings

adjectiveexsiccant (comparative more exsiccant, superlative most exsiccant)

comparative more exsiccant · superlative most exsiccant

  1. Having the quality of drying up; causing a drying up.
nounexsiccant (plural exsiccants)

plural exsiccants

  1. A medicine that causes drying up.

    Dried alum is used solely as an exsiccant and mild caustic

    1894, Arthur Albert Stevens, A Manual of Therapeutics

Origin

  1. Latinexsiccans
  2. Englishexsiccant

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

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APA

exsiccant. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/exsiccant

MLA

“exsiccant.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/exsiccant. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “exsiccant,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/exsiccant.

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