Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Tending to turn into glass.
- adj. Capable of being turned into glass.
- adj. Resembling glass; vitreous.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Turning into glass; tending to become glass.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Capable of being formed into glass; tending to become glass.
Etymologies
- c 1850 vitri- + -escent (Wiktionary)
- Latin vitrum, glass + -escent. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“This idea of the production of nodules of flint in chalk-beds is countenanced from the iron which generally appears as these flints become decomposed by the air; which by uniting with the iron in their composition reduces it from a vitrescent state to that of calx, and thus renders it visible.”
The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation
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phrontistery-v
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vaccary, vaccimulgence, vaccine, vacillate, vadelect, vade-mecum, vadimony, vadose, vafrous, vagient, vagile, vagility and 396 more...
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They Grow on You
accrescent, acescent, adipescent, alkalescent, contabescent, convalescent, decrescent, deliquescent, equicrescent, excrescent, fervescent, flavescent and 27 more...
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