[ UK /ˈæɹɪd/ ]
[ US /ˈæɹəd, ˈɛɹəd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless
    a desiccate romance
    a technically perfect but arid performance of the sonata
    a prissy and emotionless creature...settles into a mold of desiccated snobbery
  2. lacking sufficient water or rainfall
    an arid climate
    miles of waterless country to cross
    a waterless well
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How To Use arid In A Sentence

  • Thus, developing a vaccine directed against one or a few capsular polysaccharides may not be widely effective.
  • Because each monosaccharide can link to more than one other monosaccharide, oligosaccharides can be branched.
  • Fetuin was resistant to a single O-glycosidase digestion due to the fact that its N-linked and O-linked oligosaccharides are sialylated. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • It was the boobook owl, mopoke, a totem being to the Arrernte Aborigines of these arid lands along the Macdonnell Ranges to the west of Alice Springs. Wildwood
  • A method for separation and determination of cantharidin from the culture of medicinal fungi using capillary gas chromatography was developed.
  • However, there was no sign of desperately needed rain and a westerly roared in from Australia's arid outback, fanning flames and scattering red hot embers to start new blazes.
  • This ecoregion forms the northern part of the subarid bioclimate zone of Cornet. Madagascar succulent woodlands
  • The finding of large cavernous spaces filled with mucopolysaccharides is consistent with ischemic processes elsewhere in the central nervous system.
  • We are already observing what appear to be trends towards increasing, long-term aridity in parts of the world. RealClimate
  • By microwave-isted extraction and intermittent microwave radiation heating, the new technology of obtaining Porphyra haitanensis polysaccharides was studied.
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