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deliquescent
Seeming to melt away.
(physical 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.
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There are two distinct plans of branching in trees. When the main trunk extends upward to the tip, as it does in the larch and other conical trees, it is said to be excurrent, and when the main stem divides into many more or less equal divisions, as we find it in the American elm and other spreading trees, it is said to be deliquescent,—the latter form is the most common one among our deciduous trees.
(mycology, of the fruiting body of a fungus) Becoming liquid as a phase of its life cycle.
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