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noun the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
noun any red eruption of the skin
noun the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms
originBorrowed from French efflorescence, from Latin efflōrēscō (from ex- (“out”) + flōrēscō (“to blossom”)) + -ence. By surface analysis, effloresce + -ence.
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