The production of flowers.
Rapid flowering of a culture or civilisation etc.
The formation of a powdery surface on crystals, as a hydrate is converted to anhydrous form by losing loosely bound water of crystallization to the atmosphere.
A redness, rash, or eruption on the skin.
An encrustation of soluble salts, deposited on rock or soil by evaporation; often found in arid or geothermal environments.
An encrustation of soluble salts, commonly white, deposited on the surface of stone, brick, plaster, or mortar; usually caused by free alkalies leached from mortar or adjacent concrete as moisture moves through it.
An inflorescence that looks and functions as if it were a single flower.