The condition of not containing or being covered by a liquid (especially water)
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Examples for "dryness "
Examples for "dryness "
1 RI: Windburn and itchy skin result from surface dryness of the skin.
2 A great dryness of the salt consumes the substance of the egg.
3 The hot air quickly affects the palate and causes an artificial dryness .
4 During these variations of the zodiacal light, the hygrometer indicated considerable dryness .
5 Press your way through to God in spite of dryness and deadness.
1 In some areas, like Kimberley and Tshwane, waterlessness is the direct result of dire infrastructure and resource management.
1 There also grew the genera Xanthorrhoea, Xerotes , and Restio (rope-grass.)
2 Here likewise grew a new shrubby species of Xerotes , with hard rush-like leaves, but allied to X.
3 Xyris, Philydrum, a species of Xerotes , and an aromatic spreading herb, grew in great abundance round the water.
4 On the sandy ridges, however, there was little else than Xanthorrhoea, Xerotes , and Restio (rope grass).
5 We again found here the new Xerotes , having the flower in five or six round tufts on the blade.
6 To the South-West on the hills the grasses were Restio, Xerotes , and a spiny grass, which neither the horses nor the sheep would eat.
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