Effloresce :: Effloresce (v. i.) To blossom forth.

Effloresce :: Effloresce (v. i.) To change on the surface, or throughout, to a whitish, mealy, or crystalline powder, from a gradual decomposition, esp. from the loss of water, on simple exposure to the air; as, Glauber's salts, and many others, effloresce..

Effloresce :: Effloresce (v. i.) To become covered with a whitish crust or light crystallization, from a slow chemical change between some of the ingredients of the matter covered and an acid proceeding commonly from an external source; as, the walls of limestone caverns sometimes effloresce with nitrate of calcium in consequence of the action in consequence of nitric acid formed in the atmosphere..

Effloresced :: Effloresced (imp. & p. p.) of Effloresc.

Efflorescence :: Efflorescence (n.) Flowering, or state of flowering; the blooming of flowers; blowth..

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

Efflorescence :: Efflorescence (n.) The formation of the whitish powder or crust on the surface of efflorescing bodies, as salts, etc..

Efflorescence :: Efflorescence (n.) The powder or crust thus formed.

Efflorescency :: Efflorescency (n.) The state or quality of being efflorescent; efflorescence.

Efflorescent :: Efflorescent (v. i.) That effloresces, or is liable to effloresce on exposure; as, an efflorescent salt..

Efflorescent :: Efflorescent (v. i.) Covered with an efflorescence.

Efflorescing :: Efflorescing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Effloresc.

Floreal :: Floreal (n.) The eight month of the French republican calendar. It began April 20, and ended May 19. See Vendemiare..

Floren :: Floren (n.) A cerain gold coin; a Florence.

Florence :: Florence (n.) An ancient gold coin of the time of Edward III., of six shillings sterling value..

Florence :: Florence (n.) A kind of cloth.

Florentine :: Florentine (a.) Belonging or relating to Florence, in Italy..

Florentine :: Florentine (n.) A native or inhabitant of Florence, a city in Italy..

Florentine :: Florentine (n.) A kind of silk.

Florentine :: Florentine (n.) A kind of pudding or tart; a kind of meat pie.

Florescence :: Florescence (n.) A bursting into flower; a blossoming.

Florescent :: Florescent (a.) Expanding into flowers; blossoming.

Floret :: Floret (n.) A little flower; one of the numerous little flowers which compose the head or anthodium in such flowers as the daisy, thistle, and dandelion..

Floret :: Floret (n.) A foil; a blunt sword used in fencing.

Inflorescence :: Inflorescence (n.) A flowering; the putting forth and unfolding of blossoms.

Inflorescence :: Inflorescence (n.) The mode of flowering, or the general arrangement and disposition of the flowers with reference to the axis, and to each other..

Inflorescence :: Inflorescence (n.) An axis on which all the flower buds.

Reflorescence :: Reflorescence (n.) A blossoming anew of a plant after it has apparently ceased blossoming for the season.

Semifloret :: Semifloret (n.) See Semifloscule.

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