drydown

See also: dry-down and dry down

English

Alternative forms

• dry-down

Etymology

From dry +‎ down and deverbal from dry down.

Noun

drydown (countable and uncountable, plural drydowns)

1. The phase of a perfume where the top note gives way to the base note.
2. (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).
3. A period where the habitat of a hydrophile organism is desiccated.