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canescent

[ kuh-nes-uhnt ]

adjective

  1. covered with whitish or grayish pubescence, as certain plants.


canescent

/ əˈɛəԳ /

adjective

  1. biology white or greyish due to the presence of numerous short white hairs
  2. becoming hoary, white, or greyish
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Derived Forms

  • ˈԱԳ, noun
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ·ԱcԳ 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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