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contabescence|kɒntəˈbɛsəns|
[ad. L. type *contābēscentia, n. of state f. contābēscent-: see next and -ence. So. F. contabescence (in Littré).]
†1. A general wasting away, decay, atrophy. Obs. in general sense.
1650tr. Caussin's Ang. Peace 44 Such a cruel Warre..creeping as it were with a slow contabescence..eats up all things. 1654Charleton Physiol. 235 All..odorous bodies, in the tract of a few years, confess a substantiall Contabescence, or decay of Quantity. 1882Syd. Soc. Lex., Contabescence, same as Contabescentia..an old term for atrophy, consumption, marasmus, or any wasting of the body.
2. Bot. Partial or total suppression of pollen formation in the anthers of flowers. See next.
1869Masters Veget. Teratology (Ray Soc.). 1888Henslow Orig. Flor. Struct. 275 The phenomenon called contabescence by Gärtner. |