dessication

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dessication

  1. Misspelling of desiccation.
    • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 69:
      Hockett and Ascher go back to the period of dessication in the Pliocene when the forests were disappearing and the savannah was opening up.