| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| albescent |
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| SYLLABICATION: | al·bes·cent |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   l-b s  nt |
| ADJECTIVE: | Becoming white or moderately white; whitish. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Latin alb scns, albscent-, present participle of albscere, to become white, from albus, white. See albho- in Appendix I.
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