dry-looking

The oak trees around my house, for example, are covered with a type of fast-acting moss, which interacts with water over the course of minutes to transform from dull, dry-looking brown stuff into glowing green fairy-carpet.

Drunk On Color Heather McDougal 2009

Tall, dry-looking brown weeds grow from the flowerbeds.

Famous Todd Strasser 2011

Tall, dry-looking brown weeds grow from the flowerbeds.

Famous Todd Strasser 2011

The oak trees around my house, for example, are covered with a type of fast-acting moss, which interacts with water over the course of minutes to transform from dull, dry-looking brown stuff into glowing green fairy-carpet.

Archive 2009-05-01 Heather McDougal 2009

The result was a dry-looking picture with a hazy, grainy texture; Twombly called them his "dryprints."

Cy Twombly's Delicate 'Dryprints' Anna Jenkinson 2012

Soon the mountains were gone, and everything was flatter, dry-looking, straw colored—and we had our big open skies back again.

Amy & Roger’s Epic Detour Morgan Matson 2010

Soon the mountains were gone, and everything was flatter, dry-looking, straw colored—and we had our big open skies back again.

Amy & Roger’s Epic Detour Morgan Matson 2010

Start with ½ cup and then add more till it's not quite dry-looking.

mondo gumbo meatloaf Pat 2006

So I waded out in the unbelievably warm water and was duly given a dry-looking piece of fruit, most unappetizing in appearance.

What Works When Life Doesn’t Stuart Briscoe 2004

Deceptively dry-looking on the page, these columns of numbers and percentages, of figures broken out by age or race or sex or educational attainment, have often prompted paroxysms of national concern and dismay — as, for example, in the 1860s, when a rising birth rate in Germany in conjunction with a stationary one in France led to nervousness among the French, who believed that population growth bore a strong relationship to military might.

Delayed Childbearing 1995