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Definition of Shrivelled
1. Adjective. (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture. "Withered vines"
Category relationships: Botany, Flora, Vegetation
Similar to: Dry
Derivative terms: Sereness
2. Adjective. Lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness. "A wizened little man with frizzy grey hair"
3. Adjective. Reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity. "The dollar's shrunken buying power"
Definition of Shrivelled
1. Adjective. Wrinkled because the volume has reduced while the surface area of the outer layer has remained constant. ¹
2. Adjective. Collapsed in size. ¹
3. Verb. (past of ''shrivel'') ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Shrivelled
1. shrivel [v] - See also: shrivel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shrivelled
Literary usage of Shrivelled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1880)
"... however, he was sent regularly once a year by his less active brethren.
and shrivelled — a piece of parchment or vellum, tough and yellow as leather, ..."
2. Medical lexicon by Robley Dunglison (1851)
"... means a shrivelled or wrinkled body, A destruction or atrophy of the eye.
Corrugation and subsidence of the cornea. ..."
3. Comparative Anatomy of the Vegetative Organs of the Phanerogams and Ferns by Anton Bary (1884)
"palustre (145). и Endodermis. i axial air-canal, at * remains of the membranes
of shrivelled pith-cells. In the middle a vascular bundle surrounded by ..."
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