A soft, unctuous, or waxy substance, of a light brown color, into which the fat and muscle tissue of dead bodies sometimes are converted, by long immersion in water or by burial in moist places. It is a result of fatty degeneration.
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n plant that derives moisture and nutrients from the air and rain
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not giving off moisture on exposure to the air
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suspended animation in organisms during periods of extreme drought from which they revive when moisture returns
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a deficiency of moisture (especially when resulting from a permanent absence of rainfall)
