Canescence

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being canescent. uncountable

    "Leaves pinnate, or pinnatifid, thickly clothed with a short silkycanescence: leaflets or segments lanceolate or ovate and acute, the lower ones 2 or 3-parted, or 2 to 3-lobed: the upper ones entire, all clothed with a silky canescence."

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"Leaves pinnate, or pinnatifid, thickly clothed with a short silkycanescence: leaflets or segments lanceolate or ovate and acute, the lower ones 2 or 3-parted, or 2 to 3-lobed: the upper ones entire, all clothed with a silky canescence."

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