English Dictionary

deliquescent

形容詞

菌類学

Seeming to melt away. / (chemistry) Absorbing moisture from the air and forming a solution. / (botany) Branching so that the stem is lost in branches, as in most deciduous trees.

日本語の意味

溶けるように見える / （化学）空気中の水分を吸収して溶液を形成する / （植物学）枝分かれして幹が枝に失われる形になる（落葉樹の特徴）

In the dim afternoon light, the mountains took on a deliquescent quality, their outlines blurring into the sky.

薄暗い午後の光の中で、山々は溶けていくような趣を帯び、その輪郭が空へとぼやけていった。

意味（1）

Seeming to melt away.

Any one who stands outside, who hides himself in a deliquescent aloofness, is a sneak and a spy—

意味（2）

(chemistry) Absorbing moisture from the air and forming a solution.

deliquescent salts

意味（3）

(botany) Branching so that the stem is lost in branches, as in most deciduous trees.

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.

意味（4）

(mycology, of the fruiting body of a fungus) 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.

more deliquescent （ comparative ）

most deliquescent （ superlative ）