'Effloresce' definitions:
Definition of 'effloresce'
(from WordNet)
verb
Come into or as if into flower; "These manifestations effloresced in the past" [syn: effloresce, burst forth]
verb
verb
Become encrusted with crystals due to evaporation
Definition of 'Effloresce'
From: GCIDE
- Effloresce \Ef`flo*resce"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Effloresced; p. pr. & vb. n. Efflorescing.] [L. efflorescere to bloom, blossom; ex + florescere to begin to blossom, incho., fr. florere to blossom, fr. flos a flower. See Flower.]
- 1. To blossom forth. --Carlyle. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Chem.) 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. [1913 Webster]
- 3. 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 of nitric acid formed in the atmosphere. [1913 Webster]