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Prune - dried plum
straw - dried grass
hay - dried grass
raisin - dried grape
sultana - dried grape
(I believe raisins have pips and sultanas don't, or the other way around. If I'm wrong, someone will surely let me know...)
But the real question is:
are there any other words that have an inherent meaning of 'dried something'?
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But the real question is:
are there any other words that have an inherent meaning of 'dried something'?
Jerky? I had to hunt for it, Merriam-Webster.com defines jerky as "jerked meat" then fails to define "jerked", but dictionary.com says that "jerk" in that sense is a back-formation from jerky and means, "To cut (meat) into long strips and dry in the sun or cure by exposing to smoke." Does that count?
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loofah - the dried fibrous part of the gourd-like fruit of a plant of the genus Luffa, used as a bath or shower sponge bodewash - buffalo chips (or cow dung), esp. when dried and burned as fuel 
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Dang, tsuwm, you took mine!
Don't they have an annual cow-chip toss, somewhere out West?
I suppose if you can put loofah, I can list sponge, although either can also be wet. I've seen divers come up
with a load of sponges off the coast of Florida--neat!
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Does 'pot pourri' count? I know that it can generically mean a stew, but its most common use would seem to fit the thread.
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desiccated coconut = dried coconut. Does that count? :0)
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johnjohn, I think desiccated coconut is pushing it. If we let this in, we could allow desiccated anything!
However, pot pourri has me in at least two minds!
Inspired by Max, I add biltong!
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I thing that desiccation might answer the original question. I was told some time ago that that getting older was largely to do with desiccation!
des·ic·ca·tion ('des-i-`kā-shən)
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The act or process of desiccating or the state of being or becoming desiccated ;esp
A complete or nearly complete deprivation of moisture (as by vaporization or by evaporation) or of water not chemically combined
dehydration <from the long-wave diathermy machine two distinct currents are obtained which produce ~ and electrocoagulation respectively - W. H. Schmidt> (Gurunet)
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"Electrocoagulation"?!?!
Sounds horripilifying! I did LIU, and it surely must be.
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The reason I'm anti desiccation (apart from its association with aging!) is that the word desiccation is about drying out, but not strongly about anything else. It doesn't give you a picture of the specific thing.
A prune is a dried plum and not a dried anything else. The word has 'dried' and 'plum' inextricably tied up in its meaning. I don't see a thing in desiccation. Does that make sense?
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ie, what would be the 'undesiccated' version of 'desiccation'?
There needs to be a word there in the first place that can be 'dried' by changing it to another word.
(...aieee I worry about my brain sometimes....)
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>the 'undesiccated' version of 'desiccation'<
Hi Bridget,
I see what you mean, here. But the prefix "de" doesn't always convey a privative function as e.g. in depreciation or degradation. If you take deflagration or deambulation (and many others, straight from Latin), the prefix rather implies a prolonged, exhaustive or repetitive action, and this is the case with desiccation. I felt concerned because in chemistry we do quite a lot of desiccation.
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what would be the 'undesiccated' version of 'desiccation'?
How 'bout hydration or hydrated, Sweetie?
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hydrogen and oxygen = dried water
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[A prune is a dried plum and not a dried anything else. The word has 'dried' and 'plum' inextricably tied up in its meaning.
That was how I read the question, also. I took it to be asking for a noun that uniquely applied to something which is in a dessicated state. How about "desert"?
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>How 'bout hydration or hydrated, Sweetie?<
This belongs to the first category. Dehydrated is "de-prived of water". Now that you say sweetie - what about biscuit?
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>Does 'pot pourri' count? ..seem to fit the thread.< 'Pot pourri' fits well nigh any of our threads here  . (the expression lost any connection with pourri = 'rotten'.)
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<desiccated coconut = dried coconut. Does that count? :0)>
- it was a joke, sorry if anyone took it seriously!!!!!!
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>it was a joke, sorry if anyone took it seriously
Does anyone take anything seriously here?????
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Does anyone take anything seriously here????? I seriously hope so .
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SO with dried meat,fruit and other goodies, would it be fair to suggest the vendor be known as a dessicaletan?
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>dessicaletan  you... you... exsiccated old costermonger you.
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SO with dried meat,fruit and other goodies, would it be fair to suggest the vendor be known as a dessicaletan?
No, no, see (merciful heavens--the eight-armed dancing one must be rubbing off on me-- help!), the SHOP would be the dessicatelan. The OWNER would then be the dessicator/dessicatrix, and we'd all have to take the escalator to get to the dessicated goods...and then designate our choices, and decimate our pocketbooks, and delegate which child got to carry what, relegating the lightest package to the youngest child, and when we got home we'd celebrate, as I am the end of this sentence! So welcome, maverick, and I think it is obvious that I need more sleep (or something)! You got a unique welcome, and aren't we all glad??
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and I think it is obvious that I need more sleep (or something)! You got a unique welcome, and aren't we all glad??
Oh yeah, well I do my babbling while I'm wide awake!
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Hi and thanks for the welcome!
As a BB virgin it's a pleasure to converse with such afficionados as yourself and the singularly useful word man.
Off-string, but still thinking acronymically, what about Vague Existance, Save by Telephone for the world wide weird generation addicted to BBs?
Returning to diessection of dessications, how about: GUANO
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Golly, now we have a maverick and a cowboy, so all we need for a rodeo would be bull--oh, never mind, we have plenty of that! Mav, when you said you were a BB virgin, I was looking for an A and an L to be added on to your acronym of VEST ! 
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No, just stringin' along :)
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No, just stringin' along :)A g-string? (She said, returning to the gutter.) Ooh, can we see?
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>what about Vague Existance, Save by Telephone for the world wide weird generation addicted to BBs?<
Surely not Telephone? They'll all be on the web and totally impossible to get through to...
How about Generally Electronic Exchange of Knowledge?
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