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canescence

canescence noun: the quality of being canescent.

Noun

canescence (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being canescent.
    • Leaves pinnate, or pinnatifid, thickly clothed with a short silkycanescence: leaflets or segments lanceolate or ovate and acute, the lower ones 2 or 3-parted, or 2 to 3-lobed: the upper ones entire, all clothed with a silky canescence.1826, Robert Sweet, Geraniaceae: The Natural Order of Gerania
    • A small white- or pale-cream-capped mushroom with a canescence on the cap and upper stem when fresh; on leaves and humus under hardwoods, but also on conifer needles2017, Timothy J. Baroni, Mushrooms of the Northeastern United States and Eastern Canada

Questions about canescence

What does canescence mean?
Canescence means the quality of being canescent.
What part of speech is canescence?
Canescence is a noun.

Words near canescence in the dictionary

  1. caners
  2. canertinib
  3. canes
  4. canes it
  5. canescein
  6. canescence
  7. canescent
  8. canescently
  9. canesceol
  10. canest
  11. Canet

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