virescent
/vɪˈrɛs(ə)nt
/adjective literary
Greenish: his feet were flat on the virescent carpet...
- Behind him, the virescent beast crouched as if about to leap again, bellowing defiance and raising clenched fists that were as big as hams.
Derivatives
virescence
- Vinca virescence is a phytoplasma that causes symptoms of virescence, phyllody and witches’ broom.
- Proliferation of shoots was observed in one of the samples of periwinkle and, virescence was showed by the other one.
virescently
- Using the virescently marked male-sterile line 81 A, Feng (1990) carried out a trial production of hybrid seeds in Zu County in Hebei Province, China
Origin
Early 19th century: from Latin virescent- 'turning green', inceptive of virere 'be green'.