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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)
n.
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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