EFFLORESCENCE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A powdery deposit on a surface

Synonyms:

bloom; efflorescence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("efflorescence" is a kind of...):

crystallisation; crystallization; crystallizing (the formation of crystals)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms

Synonyms:

anthesis; blossoming; efflorescence; florescence; flowering; inflorescence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("efflorescence" is a kind of...):

development; growing; growth; maturation; ontogenesis; ontogeny ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level)

Derivation:

effloresce (come into or as if into flower)

efflorescent (bursting into flower)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Any red eruption of the skin

Synonyms:

efflorescence; rash; roseola; skin rash

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("efflorescence" is a kind of...):

eruption (symptom consisting of a breaking out and becoming visible)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "efflorescence"):

heat rash; miliaria; prickly heat (obstruction of the sweat ducts during high heat and humidity)

hives; nettle rash; urticaria; urtication (an itchy skin eruption characterized by weals with pale interiors and well-defined red margins; usually the result of an allergic response to insect bites or food or drugs)