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virescent (vay-RES-uhnt) - adj., somewhat green, greenish; turning green.
Contrast with verdant, brightly green with connotations of being overgrown. Virescent in botany can specifically mean chlorophyll that has been shifted to somewhat yellowish. Borrowed in 1826 from Latin virēscent, stem of virēscēns, present participle of virēscere, to become green, the inchoative of virēre, to be green.
---L.
Contrast with verdant, brightly green with connotations of being overgrown. Virescent in botany can specifically mean chlorophyll that has been shifted to somewhat yellowish. Borrowed in 1826 from Latin virēscent, stem of virēscēns, present participle of virēscere, to become green, the inchoative of virēre, to be green.
---L.
