Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Dried in the sun, as tomatoes or bricks.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Dried in the rays of the sun.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Dried by the heat of the sun.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Having been dried by the sun.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective dried naturally by the sun
  • adjective dried naturally by the sun

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Examples

  • In Lebanon it can refer to any food preserved for winter or hard times—pickles, jam, dried cheese, makdous preserved in olive oil, sun-dried tomato paste, honeyed fruit, even meat preserved in rendered fat.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • It was called hamudh, which means sour, and it was made from noomi Basra, little sun-dried key limes historically imported from Persia through the southern Iraqi port of Basra.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • In Lebanon it can refer to any food preserved for winter or hard times—pickles, jam, dried cheese, makdous preserved in olive oil, sun-dried tomato paste, honeyed fruit, even meat preserved in rendered fat.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • I could see a touch of sugar being added for yeast growth, but what the heck was so much of it doing in a supposedly savoury loaf, well ahead of the sun-dried tomatoes (which were invisible)?

    Archive 2009-07-01 Sarah 2009

  • It was called hamudh, which means sour, and it was made from noomi Basra, little sun-dried key limes historically imported from Persia through the southern Iraqi port of Basra.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • Other heads, thoroughly sun-dried and smoke-cured, were found in abundance, but, with two exceptions, they were the heads of blacks.

    Chapter 25 2010

  • The tender tips of the fallen palms were likewise eaten, while the thousands of coconuts were husked and split and sun-dried and smoke-cured into copra to be sold to the next passing trader.

    CHAPTER XI 2010

  • A rabbit-skin sleeping-robe, a muzzle-loading rifle, and a few pounds of sun-dried salmon constituted his outfit.

    NEGORE, THE COWARD 2010

  • She could make a meal of sun-dried fish or a bed in the snow; yet she teased them with tantalizing details of many-course dinners, and caused strange internal dissensions to arise at the mention of various quondam dishes which they had well-nigh forgotten.

    An Odyssey of the North 2010

  • I could see a touch of sugar being added for yeast growth, but what the heck was so much of it doing in a supposedly savoury loaf, well ahead of the sun-dried tomatoes (which were invisible)?

    A Miss and a Surprise Hit Sarah 2009

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