moisture (noun)
81cobalt chloride — noun Date: 1869 a chloride of cobalt; especially the dichloride CoCl2 that is blue when dehydrated, turns red in the presence of moisture, and is used to indicate humidity …
82crisper — noun Date: 1835 one that crisps; specifically a closed container in a refrigerator intended to prevent loss of moisture from fresh produce …
83epiphyte — noun Date: circa 1847 a plant that derives its moisture and nutrients from the air and rain and grows usually on another plant …
84frostwork — noun Date: 1729 the figures that moisture sometimes forms in freezing (as on a windowpane) …
85great group — noun Date: 1960 a category below the suborder and above the subgroup in the hierarchy of soil classification comprising one or more subgroups based on similarities in horizons or characteristics of moisture or temperature called also great soil… …
86ground cloth — noun Date: 1931 a waterproof sheet placed on the ground for protection (as of a sleeping bag) against soil moisture …
87haylage — noun Etymology: hay + silage Date: circa 1958 a stored forage that is essentially a grass silage wilted to 35 to 50 percent moisture …
88highbush blueberry — noun Date: 1913 a variable moisture loving North American shrub (Vaccinium corymbosum) that is the source of most cultivated blueberries; also its fruit …
89humectant — noun Etymology: Latin humectant , humectans, present participle of humectare to moisten, from humectus moist, from humēre to be moist more at humor Date: circa 1867 a substance that promotes retention of moisture • humectant adjective …
90meadow grass — noun Date: 13th century any of various grasses (as of the genus Poa) that thrive in the presence of abundant moisture; especially Kentucky bluegrass …
