Etymology

canescent

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Today it means: Turning white or gray. Full definition →

Latin canescens
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  1. Latin · derived fromcanescens
  2. English todaycanescent

From Latin canescens, present participle of canescere (“to become gray or white”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.