Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Turning yellow; yellowish.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Yellowish; having a yellow tinge; turning yellow.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Turning yellow; yellowish.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
yellow -ish in colour, or turning yellow
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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A wonderful impetus was supplied by the creature itself when, flavescent bristles standing noticeably on end, it took a menacing four-tentacled step toward him.
Lost And Found Foster, Alan Dean 2004
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Tracking downward from Riddick's face and spe-cial goggles, the attention of the flavescent trio even'tually came to rest on the big man's boots.
The Chronicles of Riddick Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2004
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Instead, fields of waving wheatlike grass stretched to the distant horizon, interrupted only by isolated thickets of slender, buttery-yellow trees that rose from the flavescent savanna like stiff whiskers on a cat's face.
Kingdoms of Light Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2001
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Within minutes the miniature oasis was no more, a flavescent smudge of decay against the sickly, pallid earth.
A Triumph of Souls Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000
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Everything spread out again: the bridges with their arches opening upon the sheeny water; the Cite, enveloped in shade, above which rose the flavescent towers of Notre-Dame; the great curve of the right bank flooded with sunlight, and ending in the indistinct silhouette of the
His Masterpiece ��mile Zola 1871
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"Peering through the tentacled brilliance, she saw the yellow figure of Rachael surrounded by an attentive court of dazzling luminaries, a flavescent nucleus orbited by blue and crimson electrons.
Cachalot Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1980
knitandpurl commented on the word flavescent
"I raised my eyes to those flavescent, frizzy locks and felt myself caught in their swirl and swept away, with a throbbing heart, amid the lightning and the blasts of a hurricane of beauty."
--The Captive & The Fugitive by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, revised by D.J. Enright, p 185 of the Modern Library paperback edition
January 8, 2010