What is "dessicate"

Usage examples of "dessicate".

The sun had passed its white-hot zenith, and a kind golden light now swathed the banks of dessicated eucalyptus trees.

In the dessicated garden I looked back up at the window and saw her crooked face staring down at me.

Some dessicated samples of vegetation that was indisputably terrestrial.

But gooey philosophers think of their prickly colleagues as animated skeletons that rattle and click without any flesh or vital juices, as dry and dessicated mechanisms bereft of all inner feelings.