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adj. - (especially of certain salts) becoming liquid by absorbing moisture from the air.

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  • Gills not deliquescent -- ring present, Annellaria.
  • Pileus fleshy, membranaceous or deliquescent, 26. 26.
  • Besides which he was deliquescent and scarlet, and felt so.
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