rufescent

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rufescent (roo-FES-uhnt) - adj., tinged with red; becoming reddish.


So both a state and a process. Derived from the past participle of rūfescere, to redden, from rūfus, red/reddish, from PIE root reudh- -- so a cognate of ruddy.

---L.
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