drydown
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English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
dry + down and deverbal from dry down.
Noun[edit]
drydown (countable and uncountable, plural drydowns)
- The phase of a perfume where the top note gives way to the base note.
- (agriculture) The physiologically mature phase in the ripening of a crop, where the fruit attains the desired trait of desiccation, suiting it for harvest and storage (e.g. maize, soybean).
- A period where the habitat of a hydrophile organism is desiccated.