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Viridescent

//ˌvɪɹəˈdɛs(ə)nt// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Having a greenish hue; becoming somewhat green in color.

    "In from two to three years the newt changes its red for a viridescent coloration, returns to the water, loses its ciliated and regains a stratified non-ciliated oral epithelium, and reassumes a partial aquatic respiration, and during the remainder of its life is properly an aquatic form."

Etymology

C 1850 from Late Latin viridescens, present participle of viridescere; see virescent.

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