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nigrescent

[nahy-gres-uhnt]

adjective

  1. tending toward black; blackish.



nigrescent

/ naɪˈɡrɛsənt /

adjective

  1. blackish; dark

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Other Word Forms

  • nigrescence noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of nigrescent1

First recorded in 1745–55; from Latin nigrēscent- (stem of nigrēscēns, present participle of nigrēscere “to turn black, grow dark”), equivalent to nigr- (stem of niger ) “black” + -ēscent- verb suffix meaning “becoming”; -esce, -ent
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Word History and Origins

Origin of nigrescent1

C18: from Latin nigrescere to grow black, from niger black; see Negro 1
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Example Sentences

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Nigrescent, nī-gres′ent, adj. growing black or dark: approaching to blackness.—n.

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It is a tale of the achievements of the black-shirted Italian legions who saved their country from Bolshevism, not of the occult and nigrescent rite of invoking devils.

The bride elect held her head very erect; the red spots in her cheeks glowed like double peonies; her two thin curls, done in oil for the occasion, hung straight and stiff like pendant icicles nigrescent; her sparkling black eyes looked apparently into vacuity, while they were really beholding the acme of all her hopes.

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Light fulvous on the face, middle of back and upper part of tail; cheeks, sides of neck and body, inner side, and most of the fore parts of the limbs, white; shoulder and haunch, and outside of the limbs nearly to the middle joint, mixed black and white; tail darker at the base above, largely tipped with white; lower parts nigrescent; ears black posteriorly; fur soft and fine as in V. montanus, altogether dissimilar from that of V. Bengalensis.

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