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erubescent

/ˌɛɹ.ʊˈbɛs.ənt/

erubescent adjective: red; reddish.

Adjective

erubescent (comparative more erubescent, superlative most erubescent)

  1. Red; reddish.
    • Cycloptically through the windowdisks and with eddying awes the round eyes of the rundreisers, back to back, buck to bucker, on their airish chaunting car, beheld with intouristing anterestedness the clad pursue the bare, the bare the green, the green the frore, the frore the cladagain, as their...1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC
    • Fruits ovoid or orbicular, without nutlets at base, narrow into a neck, often underdeveloped, white, greenish white and erubescent only on 1 side2004, L I Malyschev, Flora of Siberia
  2. Blushing
    • [T]he Major erubescent confounded the impudence of the young folks, and said when he had his hair cut he would keep a lock of it for Miss Laura.1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 54, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published...
    • I see you on the edge of a mountain,
      I call your name.
      You turn and give a smile, you hug me and hold me.
      As the sun goes down,
      You can see I'm clearly Erubescent.
      I hate and I love it at the same time.2019, Cameron Mcnaughton, “Erubescent,”, in Imaginings: 21St Century Poet

erubescent meaning in Tamil

erubescent in Tamil

சிவப்பாகின்ற

Forms of erubescent

comparativemore erubescent
superlativemost erubescent

Origin of erubescent

18th century. From Latin erubescens, present participle of erubescere (“to grow red”); e (“out”) + rubescere. See rubescent. By surface analysis, e- + Latin rub(eō) + -escent.

Words that rhyme with erubescent

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Questions about erubescent

What does erubescent mean?
Erubescent means red; reddish.
What is erubescent in Tamil?
Erubescent in Tamil is சிவப்பாகின்ற. See Erubescent meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is erubescent?
Erubescent is an adjective.
How do you pronounce erubescent?
Erubescent is pronounced /ˌɛɹ.ʊˈbɛs.ənt/.

Words near erubescent in the dictionary

  1. ERU
  2. erub
  3. erubescence
  4. erubescences
  5. erubescency
  6. erubescent
  7. erubescite
  8. erubescites
  9. eruboside
  10. erubs
  11. eruca

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Adapted from Wiktionary: erubescent (page history and authors); erubescent (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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