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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Beginning to be; becoming: juvenescent.
  2. n. Characterized by; resembling: opalescent.

Wiktionary

  1. n. beginning to be; becoming
  2. n. resembling

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. A suffix signifying beginning, beginning to be

Etymologies

  1. French, from Old French, from Latin -ēscēns, -ēscent-, present participle suff. of inchoative verbs in -ēscere.

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