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noun

Efflorescence n.

(Bot.) Flowering, or state of flowering; the blooming of flowers; blowth.

(Med.) A redness of the skin; eruption, as in rash, measles, smallpox, scarlatina, etc.

(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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Etymology of 'Efflorescence'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Efflorescence" Quotes from Famous Books

... covered these lands with an architectural efflorescence, legitimate daughter of their dreams. Shopkeepers and manufacturers had wished to have here a pleasure house, traditionally called a torre, in order to rest on Sundays and at the same time make a show of their wealth ...

— Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) - A Novel • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

... with Spain—that great patriotic efflorescence—was brief in its campaigning. Immediately provoked by the blowing up of the U.S.S. Maine in Havana harbor on February 15, war was declared on April 19. Admiral Dewey sank the Spanish fleet in Manila Harbor, May ...

— The Glories of Ireland • Edited by Joseph Dunn and P.J. Lennox

... fond of salt, and repair in great numbers to the salines, or salt springs, that abound in all parts of America. At these they lick up quantities of earth along with the salt efflorescence, until vast hollows are formed in the earth, termed, from this circumstance, salt "licks." The consequence of this "dirt-eating" is, that the excrement of the animal comes forth in hard pellets; and by seeing this, the hunters can always tell when they ...

— The Hunters' Feast - Conversations Around the Camp Fire • Mayne Reid

... Vedic epoch, despite its sacerdotal ritualism, is considered as the period par excellence of mythic efflorescence. "The myth," says Taine, "is not here (in the Vedas) a disguise, but an expression; no language is more true and more supple: it permits a glimpse of, or rather causes us to discern, the forms of mist, the movements ...

— Essay on the Creative Imagination • Th. Ribot

... well; a single plant of it, reared by Major Sicard, flourished and produced the long staple and peculiar tinge of this celebrated variety, though planted only in the street at Tette; and there also a salt efflorescence appears, probably from decomposition of the rock, off which the people scrape it ...

— A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries • David Livingstone

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