Meanings
adjectivecontabescent (comparative more contabescent, superlative most contabescent)
comparative more contabescent · superlative most contabescent
- Wasting away gradually.
The contabescent plants of Dianthus and Verbascum, found wild by Wiegmann, grew on a dry and sterile bank
1868, Charles Darwin, The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], →OCLC
Origin
- Latincontabescens
- Englishcontabescent
From Latin contabescens.
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Rhymes with contabescent
crescentfluorescentantidepressantincandescentconvalescentsuppressantiridescentincessantluminescentquiescentpubescentdepressanteffervescentopalescentpearlescentflorescentevanescentelectroluminescenttumescentphosphorescentessentprepubescentsenescentobsolescent
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Chicago
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