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canescent
[ kuh-nes-uhnt ]
adjective
- covered with whitish or grayish pubescence, as certain plants.
canescent
/ 办蓹藞苍蓻蝉蓹苍迟 /
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
- 肠补藞苍别蝉肠别苍肠别, noun
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 肠补路苍别蝉顎僣别苍肠别 noun
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of canescent1
1840鈥50; < Latin 肠腻苍脓蝉肠别苍迟- stem of 肠腻苍脓蝉肠脓苍蝉, present participle of 肠腻苍脓蝉肠别谤别 to grow gray, equivalent to 肠腻苍 ( us ) gray + -脓蝉肠别苍迟- -escent
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of canescent1
C19: from Latin 肠腻苍escere to grow white, become hoary, from 肠腻苍膿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鈥搒everal-seeded, septate within between the seeds.鈥擧erbs 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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