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13 words match “EFFLORESCENCE”

EFFLORESCENCE n. 4 definitions
Flowering, or state of flowering; the blooming of flowers; blowth.
EFFLORESCENCY n.
The state or quality of being efflorescent; efflorescence.
EFFLORESCENT a.
Covered with an efflorescence.
ERUPTION n.
The breaking out of pimples, or an efflorescence, as in measles, scarlatina, etc.
ERUPTIVE a.
Attended with eruption or efflorescence, or producing it; as, an eruptive fever.
EXANTHEMA n.
An efflorescence or discoloration of the skin; an eruption or breaking out, as in measles, smallpox, scarlatina, and the like diseases; -- sometimes limited to eruptions attended with fever. Dunglison.
EXANTHESIS n.
An eruption of the skin; cutaneous efflorescence.
MANNITE n.
A sweet white efflorescence from dried fronds of kelp, especially from those of the Laminaria saccharina, or devil's apron.
MOUNTAIN a.
r Mahogany. -- Mountain meal (Min.), a light powdery variety of calcite, occurring as an efflorescence. -- Mountain milk (Min.), a soft spongy variety of carbonate of lime. -- Mountain mint. (Bot.) See Mint. -- Mountain ousel (Zoöl.), the ring ousel; -- called also mountain thrush and mountain colley. See Ousel. -…
NITROMAGNESITE n.
Nitrate of magnesium, a saline efflorescence closely resembling nitrate of calcium.
RASH n.
A fine eruption or efflorescence on the body, with little or no elevation. Canker rash. See in the Vocabulary. -- Nettle rash. See Urticaria. -- Rose rash. See Roseola. -- Tooth rash. See Red-gum.
ROCK n.
and sea crayfish. -- Rock meal (Min.), a light powdery variety of calcite occuring as an efflorescence. -- Rock milk. (Min.) See Agaric mineral, under Agaric. -- Rock moss, a kind of lichen; the cudbear. See Cudbear. -- Rock oil. See Petroleum. -- Rock parrakeet (Zoöl.), a small Australian parrakeet (Euphema petro…
ROSEOLA n.
A rose-colored efflorescence upon the skin, occurring in circumscribed patches of little or no elevation and often alternately fading and reviving; also, an acute specific disease which is characterized by an eruption of this character; -- called also rose rash. -- Ro*se"o*lous, a.