The leaf-shape is an adaption over time to exceedingly dry conditions.

The location is exceedingly dry, making it suitable for infrared observations.

I was exceedingly dry, so I lay down and took a long draught of its waters, which were fresh and cold.

Laura's mouth was exceedingly dry, as if she'd spent the last half hour eating sand.

The air was exceedingly dry; it sought out every opening in Wolf's clothing with the precision of a surgeon's scalpel.

However, because the winds from Siberia are exceedingly dry, snow falls only on a few days every winter and it is never heavy.

"The forest is exceedingly dry, my dearest little moonstone, and the brush beyond looked like positive tinder."

This fairly rare phenomenon, a heat burst, also tends to be of exceedingly dry air.

The inside of his mouth was exceedingly dry, as though it had been washed out with desert sand.

Leftover turkey meat can be exceedingly dry, so you need a a good sauce to bring it back.