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AIR-DRIED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does air-dried mean?
• AIR-DRIED (adjective)
The adjective AIR-DRIED has 1 sense:
1. made dry by contact with unheated air
Familiarity information: AIR-DRIED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Made dry by contact with unheated air
Similar:
dry (free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet)
Context examples
Also known as Laudanum and formulated for oral administration, Opium tincture is made of air-dried poppy (Papaver somniferum) latex and contains alkaloids such as morphine and codeine.
(Opium Tincture, NCI Thesaurus)
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