Meaning of EFFLORESCENCE
| Pronunciation: | | `eflu'resuns
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- [n] a powdery deposit on a surface
- [n] the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
- [n] the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms
- [n] any red eruption of the skin
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| | Synonyms: | | anthesis, bloom, bloom, blossom, blossoming, florescence, flower, flowering, flush, heyday, inflorescence, peak, prime, rash, roseola, skin rash |
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| | See Also: | | crystallisation, crystallization, crystallizing, development, eruption, growing, growth, heat rash, hives, maturation, miliaria, nettle rash, ontogenesis, ontogeny, period, period of time, prickly heat, time period, urticaria, urtication | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Ef`flo*res"cence\, n. [F. efflorescence.]
1. (Bot.) Flowering, or state of flowering; the blooming of
flowers; blowth.
2. (Med.) A redness of the skin; eruption, as in rash,
measles, smallpox, scarlatina, etc.
3. (Chem.)
(a) The formation of the whitish powder or crust on the
surface of efflorescing bodies, as salts, etc.
(b) The powder or crust thus formed.
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