deliquesce

They remain open for only a few hours after opening, after which they deliquesce.

They'll deliquesce like fungi, and keep a hundred eulogists mopping the spot where they left off.

Face upward into the weak sun, Painter watched brilliance expand and deliquesce on his eyelids.

A sight to deliquesce the bowels.

Lye will deliquesce or dissolve when exposed to open air, absorbing a relatively large amount of water vapour.

Those who persisted discovered the drives' disconcerting tendency to implode or deliquesce at the merest touch of a screwdriver.

Reality seemed to deliquesce along her nerves, soaking into her clothes and running from her skin in rivulets, chilling her heart.

He murmured to his mistress, "Don't deliquesce now, dear, like poor Asenath Waite.

The thing sagged against me, and for a second I felt the terrible certainty that the corpse would deliquesce and flow down over me like moist river clay.

These tiny nodes of identity glimmered faintly in the gray light of the limbo, as this zone of nothingness waited for them to dissolve and deliquesce like the few crystals dried by the sun.

The related species Coprinopsis lagopides is similar in appearance, but more typically grows on a substrates like humus, or burnt or charred wood; it also tends to deliquesce more quickly and completely than C. lagopus.