efflorescent
Americanadjective
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efflorescing; blossoming.
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Chemistry.
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subject to efflorescence.
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covered with or forming an efflorescence.
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Etymology
Origin of efflorescent
1810–20; < Latin efflōrēscent- (stem of efflōrēscēns ), present participle of efflōrēscere to effloresce; -ent
Example Sentences
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Viewed from space, there's all this enticing, suddenly efflorescent terrain far from the tropics.
From Washington Post • May 7, 2018
Across the River Thames on the Southbank, there is an efflorescent roof garden with a difference.
From BBC • Aug. 12, 2014
Jules Fisher's lighting, like the hand of a master painter, seems to turn those same bod ies into efflorescent still lifes even when they are in dynamic motion.
From Time Magazine Archive
When painting was required to be thin, linear and efflorescent, Kossoff stuck to delving into the images and people around him and the memories within.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was as though he’d been peering through a narrow lens and the aperture began to widen to take in the entire landscape in a kind of efflorescent illumination.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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