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efflorescence

noun

1. the period of greatest prosperity or productivity

• Syn:

↑flower, ↑prime, ↑peak, ↑heyday, ↑bloom, ↑blossom, ↑flush

• Derivationally related forms: ↑flush (for: ↑flush), ↑blossom (for: ↑blossom)

• Hypernyms: ↑time period, ↑period of time, ↑period

• Hyponyms: ↑golden age

2. any red eruption of the skin

• Syn: ↑rash, ↑roseola, ↑skin rash

• Hypernyms: ↑eruption

• Hyponyms:

↑prickly heat, ↑heat rash, ↑miliaria, ↑urtication, ↑urticaria, ↑hives, ↑nettle rash

3. a powdery deposit on a surface

• Syn: ↑bloom

• Hypernyms: ↑crystallization, ↑crystallisation, ↑crystallizing

4. the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms

• Syn: ↑blossoming, ↑flowering, ↑florescence, ↑inflorescence, ↑anthesis

• Derivationally related forms: ↑efflorescent, ↑effloresce, ↑flower (for: ↑flowering)

• Hypernyms: ↑growth, ↑growing, ↑maturation, ↑development, ↑ontogeny, ↑ontogenesis

Useful english dictionary. 2012.