Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Biology Covered with short, fine whitish or grayish hairs or down; hoary.
- adj. Turning white or grayish.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Growing white or hoary; tending or approaching to white; whitish: applied to hoary, whitish pelage, plumage, or other covering of animals, and to plants with gray or hoary pubescence.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Growing white, or assuming a color approaching to white.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of greyish white
- adj. covered with fine whitish hairs or down
Etymologies
- From Latin canescens, present participle of canescere ("to become gray or white") (Wiktionary)
- Latin cānēscēns, cānēscent-, present participle of cānēscere, inchoative of cānēre, to be white, from cānus, white; see kas- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“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.”
“Chapter XVIII In the canescent pre-dawn light Conan flattened himself on a narrow granite ledge as a file of hillmen rode by on a narrow path below, between steep walls.”
“In the canescent pre-dawn light Conan flattened himself on a narrow granite ledge as a file of hillmen rode by on a narrow path below, between steep walls.”
“A downward-sloping corridor opened into a great square chamber, thirty paces on a side, with softly-gleaming canescent walls that were all of one piece, without join.”
“He settled on the cushions before it, and once more the ancient incantation rolled against the canescent walls.”
“He swung from contemplation of the resurrected warrior, standing as still as stone against the canescent wall in the same spot to which Naipal had at last commanded him on the previous night.”
“With a snarl of rage she resumed her pacing, her long robe of canescent silk clinging to every curve of her body.”
“In the distance, the blue Pyrenees look like a bank of clouds; the air that bathes them shapes them into aërial forms, vapory phantoms, the farthest of which vanish in the canescent horizon -- dim contours, that might be taken for a fugitive sketch from the lightest of pencils.”
Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 4 France and the Netherlands, Part 2
“Clue: large? tree of eurasia and north africa having greyish canescent leaves and grey bark.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘canescent’.
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phrontistery - c
from phrontistery.info
caballine, cabas, cable, caboched, cabochon, caboose, cabotage, cabré, cabrie, cabriole, cabriolet, cacaesthesia and 1298 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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cicatrix
scar tissue
minatory, naira, Cluniac, embracive, prolix, hierophant, timorous, adduce, veracious, dysphoric, sang-froid, vitiate and 503 more...
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via Weird and Wonderful Words
Catch-all for things culled from Weird and Wonderful Words, More Weird and Wonderful Words, and Totally Weird and Wonderful Words, by Erin McKean, et al.
aboulia, alexiteric, angletouch, dactylion, alveary, sparlire, glabella, philtrum, pallium, heart-spoon, hyperprosexia, paraprosexia and 438 more...
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azd's Words
adamantine, abatial, ablate, ablative, abrogate, accretive, acromegaly, acrostic, actinism, actinic, acuity, adduce and 968 more...
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Becoming Words
inchoateness
effervescent, albescent, concrescence, fervescent, frondescent, suffrutescent, violescent, viridescent, resipiscence, rufescent, sonorescent, tenebrescence and 131 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1406 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, C
cryptoxanthin, convent, calcar, chuckle, campanile, covet, complexion, campestral, chirography, counterscarp, caliginous, catabolism and 722 more...
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Color adjectives
A complement to Chromonyms and Chromonyms 2, which are restricted to nouns that have appeared in at least one dictionary. If a word can be either a noun or an adjective, I list it as a noun. This l...
hyacinthine, griseous, glaucous, verdant, virescent, amaranthine, miniaceous, rubiginous, ferruginous, ruddy, caesious, cyanotic and 214 more...
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Just trying this out.
Words which I find interesting, or which I find myself using when others don't.
mawkish, interstitial, intransigent, jellyfish baby, mordancy, arborescent, mangosteen, camelopard, coruscant, canescent, ultramarathon, stogie and 12 more...
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Random
cerograph, calculary, hambeast, canescent, animalculum, atavistic, bloomery, wroth, parturition, obstreperous, sibilant, pourparler and 53 more...
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Wild About Hairy
Hairy words. Much pilfered from G. Cook's Hairy list.
woolly, whiskered, villous, unshorn, unshaven, tufted, stubbly, shaggy, pubescent, pilose, piligerous, piliferous and 58 more...
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.colour
viridian, viridescent, ochre, sapphirine, cimmerian, russet, carnelian, roan, cerise, pearlescent, umber, opaline and 14 more...
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Words from freerice.com
foolscap, tabor, pilus, carom, pomelo, pluton, bulbul, dhole, duenna, poniard, breviary, bollix and 88 more...
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KatieClove's Words
aye, musing, drunkard, scribbling, heartful, tea, kerouac, preciosity, a priori, eldritch, shiola, dharma bum and 11 more...
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slumpy's list
cannibulimia, cannibulimia, nakhur, lolo'uila, canescent, ensnorkelled, liquefaction, noctambulation, scrimshaw
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