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Definition: Efflorescent |
EfflorescentAdjective1. Bursting into flower; "flowering spring trees". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "efflorescent" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1917. (references) |
Etymology: Efflorescent \Ef`flo*res"cent\, adjective. [French expression efflorescent, from Latin expression efflorescens, -entis, blooming, present participle of efflorescere. See Effloresce, intransitive verb.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Mining | In mineralogy, forming an incrustation or deposit of grains or powder that resembles lichens or dried leaves; not uncommonly due to loss of water ofcrystallization. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: EfflorescentSynonyms: abloom (adj), flowering (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Pulverulence | Adjective: powdery, pulverulent, granular, mealy, floury, farinaceous, branny, furfuraceous, flocculent, dusty, sandy, sabulous, psammous; arenose, arenarious, arenaceous; gritty, efflorescent, impalpable; lentiginous, lepidote, sabuline; sporaceous, sporous. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Efflorescent |
| English words defined with "efflorescent": Efflorescency, Exanthematous. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
efflorescent | 8 |
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| Language | Translations for "efflorescent"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 花状 (Efflorescence). (various references) | |
Danish | polymorft udslet (polymorphous efflorescent exanthema), polymorft exanthem (polymorphous efflorescent exanthema), monomorft exanthem (monomorphous efflorescent exanthema). (various references) | |
French | exanthème avec efflorescences polymorphes (polymorphous efflorescent exanthema), exanthème avec efflorescences monomorphes (monomorphous efflorescent exanthema). (various references) | |
German | ausblühend, aufblühend (blooming, flourishing). (various references) | |
Greek | ανθισμÎνοσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מש×'ש×' (blooming, flourishing, on velvet, palmy, proliferating, prosperous). (various references) | |
Indonesian | berkembang (burgean, develop, effloresce). (various references) | |
Manx | my vlaa (blooming, flourishing, flowering, flowery, in flower). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | efflorescentay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | exantema eflorescente polimorfo (polymorphous efflorescent exanthema), exantema eflorescente monomorfo (monomorphous efflorescent exanthema). (various references) | |
Spanish | eflorescente. (various references) | |
Turkish | tozlaşan, olgunlaşan, çiçek açan (blooming, flowering). (various references) | |
Ukranian | розквітаючий, цвілий, квітучий (blooming, blowing, flourishing, flowered, flowering, full blown, pert, thrifty, well to do, wholesome), вицвітаючий. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Efflorescent" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: efflorecent, efflorescens, eflorescent. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "efflorescent" (pronounced 'Ef`flo*res"cent'): Acaulescent, Accrescent, Acquiescent, Adducent, Adipescent, Adnascent, Albescent, Alkalescent, Arborescent, Candescent, Canescent, Caulescent, Cerulescent, Cinerescent, Circumjacent, Coalescent, Complacent, Conducent, Connascent, Contabescent, Decent, Dehiscent, Deliquescent, Delitescent, Depascent, Docent, Effervescent, Enascent, Equicrescent, Erubescent, -escent, Evanescent, Excandescent, Excrescent, Exercent, Fervescent, Flavescent, Florescent, fluorescent, Fremescent, Frutescent, Gangrenescent, Glaucescent, Herbescent, ignescent, Inacquiescent, Incalescent, incandescent, Incanescent, Increscent, indecent, indehiscent, Ineffervescent, Interjacent, Interlucent, Intumescent, iridescent, Jacent, Juvenescent, Lactescent, Latescent, liquescent, lucent, Lutescent, Maledicent, Manuducent, Marcescent, Maturescent, Nascent, Nigrescent, Obsolescent, Opalescent, Papescent, Petrescent, Phosphorescent, Photoluminescent, Precent, Producent, Pubescent, Putrescent, Rancescent, recent, Recrudescent, Reducent, Rejuvenescent, Relucent, renascent, Revalescent, Reviviscent, Rigescent, Rubescent, Rufescent, Self-complacent, Semitranslucent, senescent, Spinescent, Spinulescent, Spumescent, subjacent, Subnascent, Subtranslucent, suffrutescent, Sugescent, Supercrescent, superjacent, Tabescent, Toppescent, Traducent, Tralucent, translucent, tumescent, Turgescent, Undecent, Violascent, Violescent, Virescent, Viridescent, Vitrescent. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-e-f-f-l-n-o-r-s-t" | |
-2 letters: effloresce, florescent. | |
-3 letters: conferees, effecters, effectors, efferents, electrons, florences, forefeels, freestone, offscreen. | |
-4 letters: coffrets, conferee, corselet, effecter, effector, efferent, electors, electron, electros, encloser, enforces, ensorcel, entresol, felstone, fleecers, florence, forefeel, forefeet, forefelt, foreseen, lecterns, offences, reelects, refences, reflects, selector, softener. | |
-5 letters: celeste, cenotes, centers, centres, cloners, coffees, coffers, coffles, coffret, colters, confers, cornels, cornets, corslet, costrel, crenels, creoles, effects, efforts, elector, electro, enclose, encores, enforce, entrees, estrone, feelers, fencers, fleecer, fleeces, fleeter, flenser, florets, foresee, fresnel, frontes, lectern, lectors, lofters, necrose, nestler, offence, offense, oftener, oneself, reelect, refects, refeels, refence, reflect, reflets, relents, retenes, scoffer, secrete, soleret, stelene, teeners, telfers, tenrecs, tercels, toffees. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 66 66 6C 6F 72 65 73 63 65 6E 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). ..-. ..-. .-.. --- .-. . ... -.-. . -. - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01100110 01100110 01101100 01101111 01110010 01100101 01110011 01100011 01100101 01101110 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E f f l o r e s c e n t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0066 0066 006C 006F 0072 0065 0073 0063 0065 006E 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)397272788184718569718086 |
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