Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Dried in the sun, as tomatoes or bricks.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Dried in the rays of the sun.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Dried by the heat of the sun.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having been
dried by thesun .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective dried naturally by the sun
- adjective dried naturally by the sun
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Examples
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In Lebanon it can refer to any food preserved for winter or hard times—pickles, jam, dried cheese, makdous preserved in olive oil, sun-dried tomato paste, honeyed fruit, even meat preserved in rendered fat.
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
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It was called hamudh, which means sour, and it was made from noomi Basra, little sun-dried key limes historically imported from Persia through the southern Iraqi port of Basra.
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
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In Lebanon it can refer to any food preserved for winter or hard times—pickles, jam, dried cheese, makdous preserved in olive oil, sun-dried tomato paste, honeyed fruit, even meat preserved in rendered fat.
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
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I could see a touch of sugar being added for yeast growth, but what the heck was so much of it doing in a supposedly savoury loaf, well ahead of the sun-dried tomatoes (which were invisible)?
Archive 2009-07-01 Sarah 2009
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It was called hamudh, which means sour, and it was made from noomi Basra, little sun-dried key limes historically imported from Persia through the southern Iraqi port of Basra.
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
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Other heads, thoroughly sun-dried and smoke-cured, were found in abundance, but, with two exceptions, they were the heads of blacks.
Chapter 25 2010
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The tender tips of the fallen palms were likewise eaten, while the thousands of coconuts were husked and split and sun-dried and smoke-cured into copra to be sold to the next passing trader.
CHAPTER XI 2010
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A rabbit-skin sleeping-robe, a muzzle-loading rifle, and a few pounds of sun-dried salmon constituted his outfit.
NEGORE, THE COWARD 2010
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She could make a meal of sun-dried fish or a bed in the snow; yet she teased them with tantalizing details of many-course dinners, and caused strange internal dissensions to arise at the mention of various quondam dishes which they had well-nigh forgotten.
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I could see a touch of sugar being added for yeast growth, but what the heck was so much of it doing in a supposedly savoury loaf, well ahead of the sun-dried tomatoes (which were invisible)?
A Miss and a Surprise Hit Sarah 2009
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