Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Blooming; being in flower.
- Apt to effioresce; subject to effiorescence: as, an efflorescent salt.
- Covered or incrusted with effiorescence.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective That effloresces, or is liable to effloresce on exposure.
- adjective Covered with an efflorescence.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective bursting into
flower - adjective growing at a rapid rate;
flourishing .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective bursting into flower
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Examples
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So far as a restless mortal -- more or less aweary of most things -- like myself can be made happy by any other human being, I believe your good wishes are safe of realisation; at any rate, it will be my fault if they are not, and I beg you never to imagine that I could confound the piety of friendship with the "efflorescent" variety.
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1 Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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So far as a restless mortal ” more or less aweary of most things ” like myself can be made happy by any other human being, I believe your good wishes are safe of realisation; at any rate, it will be my fault if they are not, and I beg you never to imagine that I could confound the piety of friendship with the "efflorescent" variety.
The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard 1900
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Emerging incrementally from individual clusters of endless ruffles, five women eventually twirl to full height as so many efflorescent flamenco dancers.
A Pruned Garden of Delights Robert Greskovic 2011
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Feeling more at home in the Muslim world of Spain, North Africa and the Middle East, Sephardim such as Maimonides took up the challenge of that new civilization, a civilization best characterized by the term "religious humanism," and produced an efflorescent literature that was matched by an economic dynamism that in the early modern period extended its reach into Holland, England, and Italy.
David Shasha: Collateral Damage: Jewish Fratricide and the Demonizing of Córdoba 2010
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Feeling more at home in the Muslim world of Spain, North Africa and the Middle East, Sephardim such as Maimonides took up the challenge of that new civilization, a civilization best characterized by the term "religious humanism," and produced an efflorescent literature that was matched by an economic dynamism that in the early modern period extended its reach into Holland, England, and Italy.
David Shasha: Collateral Damage: Jewish Fratricide and the Demonizing of Córdoba 2010
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Feeling more at home in the Muslim world of Spain, North Africa and the Middle East, Sephardim such as Maimonides took up the challenge of that new civilization, a civilization best characterized by the term "religious humanism," and produced an efflorescent literature that was matched by an economic dynamism that in the early modern period extended its reach into Holland, England, and Italy.
David Shasha: Collateral Damage: Jewish Fratricide and the Demonizing of Córdoba 2010
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Composed of microscopic particles smaller than ten microns PM10, the dust contains significant levels of toxic metals like selenium, arsenic, and lead along with efflorescent salts.
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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Composed of microscopic particles smaller than ten microns PM10, the dust contains significant levels of toxic metals like selenium, arsenic, and lead along with efflorescent salts.
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For designers, sleek good taste became an inspiration as they decisively shifted away from the previously efflorescent period in car design, the fabulous 1950s, with its tailfins, hood ornaments, and whitewall tires.
Matthew DeBord: After the Golden Age, Can Car Design Go Green? 2009
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In the early days of TV with only three or four broadcasters, television was forced to assume all people were essentially alike and accordingly had to deny the most obvious fact about consumers and citizens -- their prodigious, efflorescent diversity.
bilby commented on the word efflorescent
"A gilt bamboo jardinière, in which the primulas and cinerarias were punctually renewed, blocked the access to the bay window (where the old-fashioned would have preferred a bronze reduction of the Venus of Milo); the sofas and arm-chairs of pale brocade were cleverly grouped about little plush tables densely covered with silver toys, porcelain animals and efflorescent photograph frames; and tall rosy-shaded lamps shot up like tropical flowers among the palms."
- Edith Wharton, 'The Age of Innocence'.
September 20, 2009