virescent
Americanadjective
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turning green.
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tending to a green color; slightly greenish.
adjective
Etymology
Origin of virescent
1820–30; < Latin virēscent- (stem of virēscēns, present participle of virēscere to become green), equivalent to vir ( ēre ) to be green + -ēscent- -escent
Example Sentences
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She is also interested in the virescent group, where the outer petals are almost entirely covered by distinct dark green areas.
From Washington Post • Mar. 23, 2021
Having already sacrificed precious time scouting a Bird Cherry tree “as white as a bride,” Tarkovsky is infuriated when the crew is caught planting a virescent mismatch.
From Slate • Feb. 17, 2012
Various other blossoms respond in their own particular virescent hues to the vapors of ammonia, as the reader will discover upon experiment.
From Eye Spy Afield with Nature Among Flowers and Animate Things by Gibson, W. Hamilton (William Hamilton)
Schlechtendal, in describing a flower of Colchicum autumnale, in which the perianth was virescent, says that, although the stamens were present, the pistil was absent.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.
Between them stood a table covered with green baize, which, reflecting upwards a band of sunlight shining across the chamber, flung upon his already white features the virescent hues of death.
From The Hand of Ethelberta by Hardy, Thomas
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