spray-dried

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   dried by bringing a sprayed substance (e.g. milk or soap) into contact with hot air and recovering it in the form of a powder

Questions about spray-dried

What does spray-dried mean?

spray-dried means "dried by bringing a sprayed substance (e.g. milk or soap) into contact with hot air and recovering it in the form of a powder".

How many syllables are in spray-dried?

spray-dried has 2 syllables: spray--dried. The stress falls on "spray-".

Is spray-dried a common word?

spray-dried is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.