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canescent

[ kuh-nes-uhnt ]

adjective

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


canescent

/ °ìəˈ²ÔÉ›²õÉ™²Ô³Ù /

adjective

  1. biology white or greyish due to the presence of numerous short white hairs
  2. becoming hoary, white, or greyish
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ³¦²¹Ëˆ²Ô±ð²õ³¦±ð²Ô³¦±ð, noun
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ³¦²¹Â·²Ô±ð²õc±ð²Ô³¦±ð noun
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of canescent1

1840–50; < Latin ³¦Äå²Ôŧ²õ³¦±ð²Ô³Ù- stem of ³¦Äå²Ôŧ²õ³¦Å§²Ô²õ, present participle of ³¦Äå²Ôŧ²õ³¦±ð°ù±ð to grow gray, equivalent to ³¦Äå²Ô ( us ) gray + -ŧ²õ³¦±ð²Ô³Ù- -escent
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of canescent1

C19: from Latin ³¦Äå²Ôescere to grow white, become hoary, from ³¦Äå²ÔÄ“re to be white
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Example Sentences

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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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