Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Becoming white or moderately white; whitish.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Becoming white or whitish; moderately white; of a pale, hoary aspect; bleached; blanched.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Becoming white or whitish; moderately white.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Becoming white or whitish; moderately white.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective becoming or shading into white
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The same ancestor - Latin albus, alba, album - has issue in several English scions: alb, albedo, albescent, albumen, etc.
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There the true gods led him to the subterranean pool where eyeless, albescent fish swam around the clutch of huge eggs, as hard as the finest armor, left there countless centuries past.
Conan The Magnificent Jordan, Robert 1986
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Their breath hung in the air, their words made visible in albescent puffs, as connected as an island chain.
The Miko Lustbader, Eric 1984
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The passage let into a circular sanctorum, its albescent walls worked in intricate arabesques, its high vaulted ceiling held aloft by fluted alabaster columns.
Conan The Unconquered Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1983
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The passage let into a circular sanctorum, its albescent walls worked in intricate arabesques, its high vaulted ceiling held aloft by fluted alabaster columns.
Conan The Unconquered Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1983
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Jerdon's description is "entire head iron-grey; orbits and base of ears deep orange fulvous; whole body above, with parachute and tail, a mixture of blackish and golden yellow; limbs deep orange ochreous; margin of parachute albescent; beneath the neck whitish; rest of the lower parts pale orange-red; tip of tail black; ears nearly nude; tail sub-distichous."
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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-- Above rusty brown; below rusty, more or less albescent; extremities pale, almost flesh-coloured; ears rather long; head rather elongated; tail equal to and sometimes exceeding head and body.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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-- Above ashy blue, slaty or pale mouse colour; albescent or yellowish ashy beneath; nasal appendage large, oblong, free at the tip, reaching to the base of the ears with a fold down the centre; tragus (_oreillon_) cordate, two-lobed, anterior long, narrow and pointed, posterior lobe half the height and rounded; muzzle truncated; under-lip cleft; wing membranes dark brown.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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It chiefly differs in the croup being blue instead of snow-white; but as Mr. Blyth informs me, the tint varies, being sometimes albescent.
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845
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Several emblem of the signal measure are acquirable which are gleaming blue, hot red, tranquil albescent and elating yellow.
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fbharjo commented on the word albescent
a very English word - Albion (Albio in Celtic and Alba in Gaelic)
January 8, 2016