deliquescent

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  1. Liquefying in the air; capable of becoming liquid by attracting moisture from the atmosphere: as, deliquescent salts. Regenerated tartar is so deliquescent that it is not easy to keep it dry. Black, Lectures on Chemistry.
  2. Hence Apt to dissolve or melt away; wasting away by or as if by melting. Striding over the styles to church, … dusty and deliquescent. Sydney Smith, To Archdeacon Singleton, iii.
  3. In vegetable histology, liquefying or melting away gradually, as part of the normal process of growth.
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  1. = French déliquescent = Spanish delicuescente = Portuguese deliquescente = Italian deliquescente, from Latin deliquescen(t-)s, present participle of deliquescere, melt away: see deliquesce.
 

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