Flavescent Definition

flə-vĕsənt
adjective
Turning yellow; yellowish.
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Origin of Flavescent

  • Latin flāvēscēns flāvēscent- present participle of flāvēscere to turn yellow inchoative of flāvēre to be yellow from flāvus yellow bhel-1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin flavescens

    From Wiktionary

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