Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, becoming glabrous, as organs that are hairy in the bud or young state and glabrous with age.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Becoming
glabrous , hairless, or smooth;glabrate .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective lacking hair or a similar growth or tending to become hairless
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word glabrescent.
Examples
-
The glabrescent Turd Blossom has nothing more to do except write a book...and ignore subpoenas!
Archive 2007-08-01 News from Mad Plato 2007
-
The glabrescent Turd Blossom has nothing more to do except write a book...and ignore subpoenas!
NO MORE TURD BLOSSOM News from Mad Plato 2007
-
The _leaf-sheath_ is glabrous or glabrescent and sometimes hirsute; margin is ciliate.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
-
The _leaf-blade_ is flat, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, softly pubescent or glabrescent on both the surfaces, with rounded or subcordate base and margins minutely serrate and ciliate, 2 to 6 inches long 1/6 to 1/2 inch broad; the midrib is distinct though slender with four to six main veins on each side.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
-
The stem is slender or stout, usually glabrous though occasionally glabrescent or pubescent, channelled on one side, branched from base upwards, and leafy.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
-
Dental hygienist jobs in you me, i astigmia had my edmontosaurus with glabrescent incinerator architrave, but that of the ile de crumb colpocystocele was caruncular for provincially the tranquillizing honeybee.
Rational Review 2009
qms commented on the word glabrescent
At times you accept, not assent,
For chemo is always unpleasant:
A body too thin,
A rash on your skin,
A noggin that’s growing glabrescent.
May 12, 2019