deliquiate

present singular third person deliquiates · participle present deliquiating · participle past deliquiated · past deliquiated

1. intransitiveTo melt and become liquid by absorbing water from the air; to deliquesce.

   Its strong taste, its tendency to deliquiate, and indeed all its properties, lead us to think, that it would act powerfully on the animal œconomy […]

   1790, Antoine-François de Fourcroy, Elements of natural history, and of chemistry

2. transitiveTo cause to melt.

comparative more deliquiate · superlative most deliquiate

1. biologyDeeply grooved or channel-like, as the border furrow of a trilobite.

   In general, however, species of Oncagnostus have deliquiate border furrows in both cephalon and pygidium, have an often long (sag.) and inflated pygidial axis which is broadly rounded posteriorly, and a relatively broader (tr.) glabella.

   1995, John H Shergold, Osvaldo Bordonaro, Eladio Liñán, “Late Cambrian Agnostoid Trilobites from Argentina”, in Palaeontology, volume 38, page 247