canescent
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Latin canescens, present participle of canescere (“to become gray or white”)
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Adjective [edit]
canescent (comparative more canescent, superlative most canescent)
- Turning white or gray.
- 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 434:
- An aureole of canescent hair fanned out round his head, and his jaws collapsed on toothless gums […].
- 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 434:
- (botany) Covered with short white or gray hairs; hoary.
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Verb [edit]
cānēscent
- third-person plural future active indicative of cānēscō
