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vinescent

vinescent adjective: changing to a wine-red colour.

Adjective

vinescent (not comparable)

  1. (Pertaining to) changing to a wine-red colour.
    • 7 July 1965, in humus in the forest, Gallego, 800 m altitude; to 10 cm high, fuscous cinnamon, clear cinnamon-ochraceous upwards to the cinnamon-orange or orange-ochraceous tips, tissue slowly vinescent on bruising; [...]1966, Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London
    • Vinescent or browning when bruised; fructifications up to 10 cm. high, [...]1967, Annals of the Carnegie Museum, page 137

Examples of vinescent in a sentence

  • ...all parts easily weakly vinescent around soil particles.1985 November, Ronald H. Petersen, “Notes on Clavarioid Fungi. XX. New Taxa and Distributional Records in Clavulina and Ramaria”, in...
  • From notes accompanying TENN 41224, this is a vinescent response, not a naturally occurring pigmentation.1990, Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, page 146:

Origin of vinescent

From Latin vinum + -escent.

Words formed from vinescent

  • vinescence

Questions about vinescent

What does vinescent mean?
Vinescent means changing to a wine-red colour.
How do you use vinescent in a sentence?
...all parts easily weakly vinescent around soil particles.
What part of speech is vinescent?
Vinescent is an adjective.

Words near vinescent in the dictionary

  1. vinervine
  2. vinery
  3. vines
  4. vines and fig-trees
  5. vines of Sodom
  6. vinescent
  7. vinestalk
  8. vinestalks
  9. vinestem
  10. vinestems
  11. vinestock

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