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melt or become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air
this type of salt deliquesces easily -
melt away in the process of decay
The fungi eventually deliquesced
How To Use deliquesce In A Sentence
- As we crossed the Station Heath on our way back, I checked the damp peat for sundew plants, and they too were still there, leaves unfurled so an unwary insect might trigger their honeyed, deliquescent tentacles. Wildwood
- There was a time when naif alphabetters would have written it down the tracing of a purely deliquescent recidivist, possibly ambidextrous, snubnosed probably and presenting a strangely profound rainbowl in his (or her) occiput. Finnegans Wake
- As we crossed the Station Heath on our way back, I checked the damp peat for sundew plants, and they too were still there, leaves unfurled so an unwary insect might trigger their honeyed, deliquescent tentacles. Wildwood
- It is like putting your foot on a rock only to find that it has become deliquescent and trickled away. Clarification
- The fungi eventually deliquesced
- We marvel at the exquisite tracery of a leaf, the play of light against the bark of a tree, the reflections and ripples in a puddle of water, the deliquescent radiance of a human eye.
- There was no doubt about Bubba Deeters transmogrification: the street preacher who had found God in a foxhole deliquesced like day-old fungi, reformed as a green-striped amphisband with a head at each end, and slithered toward Vanni Fucci to get in on the action. Prayers To Broken Stones
- Besides which he was deliquescent and scarlet, and felt so. The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll
- First, through their deliquescence of the tissue, they create a physically hospitable environment for larvae and adults.
- +Gills+ adnate, very crowded, linear, somewhat liquid when mature (deliquescent), sulphur yellow, and then becoming green, taste bitter. Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners