Word:
Deliquesce
Status:
Verb
Meaning:
To dissolve or melt away. To become soft or liquid with age or maturity - used of some fungal structures (as gills).
Examples:
1) A rotting tomato slowly deliquescing in the hot summer sun
2) Gills, when they begin to deliquesce
Sentences:
1) Gills are free, flesh-coloured and inclined to deliquesce.
2) It expanded quickly, curled up in shreds, and deliquesced into a black inky fluid which stained the ground.
Origin:
From Latin deliquescere which means 'to be fluid'.
First use:
1756
Synonyms:
liquefy, flux, fuse, melt, thaw.
Antonyms:
harden, set, solidify.
******
YOU ARE READING
Aesthetic Cafe
Non-FictionA cafe to explore the alluring taste of aesthetically pleasing words and soft ecstasies hidden under their enchanting attires. All you have to do is... . . Knock. ;)
