mummified, a.
(ˈmʌmɪfaɪd)
[f. mummify v. + -ed1.]
1. In senses of the verb.
| 1859 Kingsley Misc. (1860) II. 295 An old dry weather-bleared, mummified chrysalis of a man. 1863 Reade Hard Cash III. 315 Creeping awestruck round that mummified figure seated dead on his pool of sovereigns. 1883 [see mummify v. 3]. 1905 Athenæ um 21 Oct. 545/3 The mummified fauna of ancient Egypt. 1905 Sir F. Treves Other Side of Lantern vi. iii. (1906) 416 Mummified shrubs which have still a semblance of life. |
2. Of a fruit: = mummied a. 3.
| 1928 F. T. Brooks Plant Diseases xi. 143 In New Zealand apothecia [of Sclerotinia laxa] are only found where mummified fruits have been buried in hard, compact soil. 1973 H. Martin Scientific Princ. Crop Protection (ed. 6) xv. 537 For the control of the brown-rot of stone fruits (Sclerotinia spp.) the removal and burning of diseased twigs and mummified fruits is of great importance. |