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Canescent

//kəˈnɛsənt// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Turning white or gray.

    "An aureole of canescent hair fanned out round his head, and his jaws collapsed on toothless gums […]."

  2. 2
    Covered with short white or gray hairs; hoary.
Adjective
  1. 1
    covered with fine whitish hairs or down wordnet
  2. 2
    of greyish white wordnet

Etymology

From Latin canescens, present participle of canescere (“to become gray or white”).

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