Usually means: Substance used to absorb moisture.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. exsiccant: Collins English Dictionary
  2. exsiccant: Wordnik
  3. exsiccant: Wiktionary
  4. Exsiccant, exsiccant: Dictionary.com
  5. Exsiccant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. exsiccant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  7. Exsiccant: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. exsiccant: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  9. exsiccant: FreeDictionary.org
  10. Exsiccant: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. exsiccant: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (exsiccant)

▸ adjective:  Having the quality of drying up; causing a drying up.
▸ noun:  A medicine that causes drying up.

Similar:
desiccative, siccative, desiccant, deliquescent, inspissated, semidrying, detersive, dissolutive, quick-drying, xerothermic, more...

Opposite:
humectant, moisturizing, hydrating

Types:
anhyd, more...

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Similar:
desiccative, siccative, desiccant, deliquescent, inspissated, semidrying, detersive, dissolutive, quick-drying, xerothermic, more...

Opposite:
humectant, moisturizing, hydrating

Types:
anhyd, more...



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