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mummied, a.|ˈmʌmɪd|
[f. mummy + -ed1.]
1. Mummified; converted into a mummy.
1611in Coryat's Crudities Panegyr. Verses, Thinke them happy when may be shewed for a penny..The mummied princes, and Cæsar's wine yet i' Dover. 1842Lytton Zanoni v. i, The mummied and royal dead. 1900Petrie Dendereh 59 Cercopithecus sabæus Linn. One mummied specimen.
2. transf. and fig.
1862B. Taylor Poet's Jrnl. 3rd Even. Poems (1866) 50 Shelved around us lie The mummied authors.
3. Of a fruit: brown and dry as a result of brown rot disease, caused by a fungus of the genus Sclerotinia.
1909B. M. Duggar Fungous Diseases of Plants xi. 190 These mummied fruits are the chief sources of infection the following season, under ordinary conditions. 1935Bull. Min. Agric. & Fish. LXXXVIII. 1 A fruit so infected [with a fungus of the genus Sclerotinia], instead of disintegrating becomes dried up and ‘mummied’. |