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Definition of Canescent
1. Adjective. Of greyish white. "The canescent moon"
2. Adjective. Covered with fine whitish hairs or down.
Category relationships: Biological Science, Biology
Similar to: Haired, Hairy, Hirsute
Definition of Canescent
1. a. Growing white, or assuming a color approaching to white.
Definition of Canescent
1. Adjective. turning white or gray ¹
2. Adjective. (botany) covered with short white or gray hairs; hoary ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Canescent
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Canescent
Literary usage of Canescent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1876)
"... is a rather slender shrub, a foot high, the numerous fascicled leaves only 1
or 2 lines long, thick and strongly revolute, canescent with a white ..."
2. New Manual of Botany of the Central Rocky Mountains (vascular Plants) by John Merle Coulter, Aven Nelson (1909)
"Densely tufted on a thick branching caudex, depressed, rising only 3-5 cm.
high: leaves crowded, silvery-canescent with a fine appressed pubescence, ..."
3. Flora of the Rocky Mountains and Adjacent Plains, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming by Per Axel Rydberg (1917)
"A tall biennial; stem strict, 5-10 dm. high, densely canescent, with short crinkled
hairs as well as sparingly hirsute; leaves linear or narrowly ..."
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