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DELIQUESCENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does deliquescent mean?
• DELIQUESCENT (adjective)
The adjective DELIQUESCENT has 1 sense:
1. (especially of certain salts) becoming liquid by absorbing moisture from the air
Familiarity information: DELIQUESCENT used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(especially of certain salts) becoming liquid by absorbing moisture from the air
Similar:
hydrophilic (having a strong affinity for water; tending to dissolve in, mix with, or be wetted by water)
Derivation:
deliquesce (melt or become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air)
deliquesce (melt away in the process of decay)
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