drydown

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Etymology

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From dry +‎ down and deverbal from dry down.

Noun

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drydown (countable and uncountable, plural drydowns)

  1. The phase of a perfume where the top note gives way to the base note.
  2. (agriculture) The physiologically mature phase in the ripening of a crop, where the fruit attains the desired trait of desiccationsuiting it for harvest and storage (e.g. maize, soybean).
  3. A period where the habitat of a hydrophile organism is desiccated.