deliquescent
形容词 adj.
英文释义
形容词 adj.
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Seeming to melt away.
— “Any one who stands outside, who hides himself in a deliquescent aloofness, is a sneak and a spy—”
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Absorbing moisture from the air and forming a solution.
— deliquescent salts
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Branching so that the stem is lost in branches, as in most deciduous trees.
— 1850, Asa Gray, The Botanical Text-Book, New York: Putnam, 3rd edition, rewritten and enlarged, Chapter 4, p. 102, In other cases, the main stem is arrested, sooner or later, either by flowering, by the failure of the terminal bud, or the more vigorous development of some of the lateral buds, and thus the trunk is lost in the branches, or is deliquescent, as in most of our deciduous-leaved trees.
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Becoming liquid as a phase of its life cycle.
— The spores, so soon as they are ripe, either drop out of the sporiferous membrane (hymenium), or, as more frequently happens, are projected from it with an elastic jerk, or else, as is the case of Agarics of a deliquescent kind, return to the earth mixed up with the black liquid into which these ultimately resolve themselves.
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Latin deliquescens, present participle of deliquesco; de + liquesco (“to melt”): compare French déliquescent. By surface analysis, deliquesce + -ent
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