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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

... literature is the short story. But this is less due to any advance in artistic aspiration than to the fact that there is a good serial market for short stories, and the turnover is quicker for the trader than if he turned out long novels. Small stories, quick returns! In verity, this much-vaunted efflorescence of the conte is due to the compte. It is quite characteristic of our nation to arrive at a new art-form through this practical channel. But if you want a proof of the half-heartedness of our literary battles, turn to the "Fogey's" article on "The Young Men" in a recent Contemporary ...

— Without Prejudice • Israel Zangwill

... but Mr. Clouston obligingly devoted to me at least an hour, and I found it a very profitable one. He showed me a collection of flags, with which he intended constructing a grotto, and which contained numerous specimens of Coccosteus, that he had exposed to the weather, to bring out the fine blue efflorescence,—a phosphate of iron which forms on the surface of the plates. They reminded me, from their peculiar style of coloring, and the grotesqueness of their forms, of the blue figuring on pieces of buff-colored china, and seemed to be chiefly of one species, very abundant in Orkney, the Coccosteus ...

— The Cruise of the Betsey • Hugh Miller

... several other varieties of yucca that possess no particular value, but all are handsome bloomers, and the mass of white flowers which unfold during the season of efflorescence adds much to the ...

— Arizona Sketches • Joseph A. Munk

... keep all animals up to the race standard; that is sexual selection. Throughout nature the male is the variant, as we have already noted. His energy finds vent not only in that profuse output of decorative appendages Ward defines as "masculine efflorescence" but in variations not decorative, not useful or desirable ...

— The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) • Charlotte Perkins Gilman

... are severe. She has no sympathy with the myrtles. All that which is so indispensable in Song is precisely all that with which she has nothing whatever to do. It is but making her a flaunting paradox to wreathe her in gems and flowers. In enforcing a truth we need severity rather than efflorescence of language. We must be simple, precise, terse. We must be cool, calm, unimpassioned. In a word, we must be in that mood which, as nearly as possible, is the exact converse of the poetical. He must be blind indeed who does not perceive the radical and chasmal difference ...

— Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works • Edgar Allan Poe

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