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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
Other Word Forms
- canescence noun
- ˈԱԳ noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of canescent1
Word History and Origins
Origin of canescent1
Example Sentences
Low, hirsute and hispid, not canescent; heads small.
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.
Stouter and more rigid, leaves of radical shoots thicker, linear, hoary, the cauline puberulent or glabrous, calyx canescent.
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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