Canescent

Word CANESCENT
Character 9
Hyphenation ca nes cent
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Canescent"

What do we mean by canescent?

Covered with short, fine whitish or grayish hairs or down; hoary. adjective

Turning white or grayish. adjective

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.

Growing white, or assuming a color approaching to white. adjective

Turning white or gray adjective

Covered with short white or gray hairs; hoary adjective

Of greyish white adjective

Covered with fine whitish hairs or down adjective

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The word "canescent" in example sentences

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. ❋ Unknown (2003)

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. ❋ Jordan, Robert (1986)

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. ❋ Jordan, Robert (1984)

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. ❋ Jordan, Robert (1984)

He settled on the cushions before it, and once more the ancient incantation rolled against the canescent walls. ❋ Jordan, Robert (1984)

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. ❋ Jordan, Robert (1984)

With a snarl of rage she resumed her pacing, her long robe of canescent silk clinging to every curve of her body. ❋ Jordan, Robert, 1948- (1983)

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. ❋ Various (1885)

Clue: large? tree of eurasia and north africa having greyish canescent leaves and grey bark. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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