canescent

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Canus: see canescent.

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  1. adjective Biology Covered with short, fine whitish or grayish hairs or down; hoary.
  2. adjective Turning white or grayish.

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  1. Latin cānēscēns, cānēscent-, present participle of cānēscere, inchoative of cānēre, to be white, from cānus, white; see kas- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin canescen (t-)s, present participle of canescere, become white or hoary, inceptive of canēre, be white or hoary, from canus, white or hoary.
 

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