albescent
/alˈbɛs(ə)nt
/adjective literary
Growing or shading into white: albescent mist...
- ‘Lutescent ‘leaves will change from green to yellow, and ‘albescent‘leaves will turn from yellow to white.’
- When this white albescent strip is missing on either a brown or blue then it is a Smoky.
- Saturday's rain sluiced away the week's snowfall, which the balance of an albescent Sunday replaced.
Origin
Early 18th century: from Latin albescere 'become white', from albus 'white'.
Rhymes
- rock tripe
- rock trout
- rockumentary
- rock up
- Rockville
- rock wall
- rock wallaby
- rock warbler
- rock waste
- rock water
- rockweed
- Rockwell, Norman
- rock whelk
- rock whiting
- rock wool
- rockwork
- rock worm
- rock wren
- rocky
- rocky-hard
- Rocky Mount
- Rocky Mountain bee plant
- Rocky Mountain bighorn
- Rocky Mountain canary
- Rocky Mountain feathers