| When the tide is low, terrestrial conditions can heat and desiccate organisms beyond their tolerances. |
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| It is important to uproot and desiccate these weeds thoroughly, because burying them in the loose dry soil is not very effective. |
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| At lower levels of relative humidity, paintings on ivory desiccate, shrink, and crack, especially if constrained. |
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| Canola that was still fairly green when heavy frost hit earlier this week will desiccate quickly, the council states. |
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| It will be necessary to take care neither to flood sowings, nor to let them desiccate. |
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| In addition, in the case of male sterile varieties, the anthers are empty and desiccate very quickly. |
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| Lesions on flowers resemble those on the leaves. A single lesion on the pedicel or a sepal can make the flower desiccate and fall. |
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| To be observed on the green, fully developed spathe, before it starts to open and desiccate. |
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| At the same time, the peat began to desiccate, turning into a tinder box that would ignite during the dry season. |
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| The use of anticoagulant baits aids carcasses to desiccate very quickly and therefore produce very little odour. |
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| Climate changes or overgrazing around 8000 BC began to desiccate the pastoral lands of Egypt, forming the Sahara. |
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| They are in activity throughout the year so the plants may not desiccate. |
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| Finally, the entire leaves desiccate and die. |
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| When conditions are hot and dry, they found, eggs desiccate as the sand bakes in the sun, and the babies are unable to break through the packed, scalding substrate. |
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| And then they often spray again just before harvesting with the herbicide glyphosate to desiccate the crop, which saves them the energy costs of mechanical drying. |
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| Wildfires are particularly problematic in the Mediterranean countries, where dry and hot summers desiccate the vegetation and thus provide ideal conditions for fires to ignite and spread. |
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| The target areas are the clothed shoulder, elbow or forearm, where instead of thriving in the warm, moist milieu of human flesh, viruses and bacteria desiccate and die in dry, lifeless fabric. |
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| A light wind can rapidly desiccate a stressed foliage. |
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| In the past year, it has focussed on reducing usage associated with landscaping, by removing patches of grass from low-traffic areas and letting some of the landscaping between the slides desiccate and brown. |
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| Evaporate to dryness and desiccate to constant weight. |
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