Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
The production of flowers.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Rapid flowering of a culture or civilisation etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, figuratively, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The formation of a powdery surface on crystals, as a hydrate is converted to anhydrous form by losing loosely bound water of crystallization to the atmosphere.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
An encrustation of soluble salts, commonly white, deposited on the surface of stone, brick, plaster, or mortar; usually caused by free alkalies leached from mortar or adjacent concrete as moisture moves through it.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: business, construction, manufacturing
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
An encrustation of soluble salts, deposited on rock or soil by evaporation; often found in arid or geothermal environments.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: geography, geology, natural-sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A redness, rash, or eruption on the skin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a powdery deposit on a surface
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: bloom
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: crystallization, crystallisation, crystallizing
noun
the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: blossoming, flowering, florescence, inflorescence, anthesis
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis
noun
any red eruption of the skin
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: rash, roseola, skin rash
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: eruption
Narrower terms: prickly heat, heat rash, miliaria, urtication, urticaria, hives, nettle rash
noun
the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: flower, prime, peak, heyday, bloom, blossom, flush
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: time period, period of time, period
Narrower terms: golden age
History
Borrowed from French efflorescence, from Latin efflōrēscō (from ex- (“out”) + flōrēscō (“to blossom”)) + -ence. By surface analysis, effloresce + -ence.
Across languages
33 source translations are retained for this English entry.
