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canescent
[ kuh-nes-uhnt ]
adjective
- covered with whitish or grayish pubescence, as certain plants.
canescent
/ əˈɛəԳ /
adjective
- biology white or greyish due to the presence of numerous short white hairs
- becoming hoary, white, or greyish
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Derived Forms
- ˈԱԳ, noun
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Other 51Թ Forms
- ·ԱcԳ noun
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of canescent1
1840–50; < Latin ŧԳ- stem of ŧŧԲ, present participle of ŧ to grow gray, equivalent to ( us ) gray + -ŧԳ- -escent
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of canescent1
C19: from Latin escere to grow white, become hoary, from ēre to be white
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Low, hirsute and hispid, not canescent; heads small.
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Indeed, after the canescent heat of the day, and the tossing of our ill-conditioned vessel, we should have been contented with lodgings far less luxurious.
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Stouter and more rigid, leaves of radical shoots thicker, linear, hoary, the cauline puberulent or glabrous, calyx canescent.
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Pod 1–several-seeded, septate within between the seeds.—Herbs or shrubs, mostly canescent with appressed hairs fixed by the middle, with odd-pinnate faintly-nerved leaves, and pink or purplish flowers in naked axillary spikes.
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