Meanings
nounpallescence (uncountable)
- uncountableThe quality of being pallescent.
[…] sometimes even when the tail of the Porcellana is torn away from the thorax, an instantaneous and very striking pallescence of the Lernæodiscus takes place in consequence of the evacuation of the reddish fluid.
1862, The Annals and Magazine of Natural History
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