-escent
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
Latin -escent-
[edit] Suffix
-escent
- beginning to be; becoming
- resembling
[edit] Derived terms
- acaulescent
- accrescent
- acquiescent
- adolescent
- albescent
- alkalescent
- arborescent
- canescent
- caulescent
- decrescent
- evanescent
- excrescent
- flavescent
- fluorescent
- frondescent
- frutescent
- incalescent
- incandescent
- increscent
- iridescent
- juvenescent
- lactescent
- liquescent
- luminescent
- marcescent
- obsolescent
- opalescent
- pearlescent
- prepubescent
- pubescent
- putrescent
- quiescent
- rubescent
- rufescent
- senescent
- spinescent
- suffrutescent
- tabescent
- tumescent
- virescent
- viridescent
- vitrescent
