Meanings
- uncountableThe quality of being canescent.
A small white- or pale-cream-capped mushroom with a canescence on the cap and upper stem when fresh; on leaves and humus under hardwoods, but also on conifer needles
2017, Timothy J. Baroni, Mushrooms of the Northeastern United States and Eastern Canada1 more example
Leaves pinnate, or pinnatifid, thickly clothed with a short silkycanescence: leaflets or segments lanceolate or ovate and acute, the lower ones 2 or 3-parted, or 2 to 3-lobed: the upper ones entire, all clothed with a silky canescence.
1826, Robert Sweet, Geraniaceae: The Natural Order of Gerania
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