n. The act of effiorescing or blossoming out; also, an aggregation of blossoms, or an appearance resembling or suggesting a mass of flowers.n. In botany, the time or state of flowering; anthesis.n. In medicine, a redness of the skin; a rash; eruption, as in measles, smallpox, scarlatina, etc.n. In chem., the formation of small white threads or spiculæ, resembling the sublimated matter called flowers, on the surface of certain bodies, as salts, or on the surface of any permeable body or substance; the incrustation so formed.