1. (adj)adust, baked, parched, scorched, sunbaked dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight "a vast desert all adust"; "land lying baked in the heat"; "parched soil"; "the earth was scorched and bare"; "sunbaked salt flats"
2. (adj)baked (bread and pastries) cooked by dry heat (as in an oven)
"baked goods"