viridescent

comparative more viridescent · superlative most viridescent

1. Green or greenish.

   Synonyms: virescent, virid, greenish, greenly, greeny, verdant, verdurous, vert

2. Becoming green.

   In from two to three years the newt changes its red for a viridescent coloration, returns to the water, loses its ciliated and regains a stratified non-ciliated oral epithelium, and reassumes a partial aquatic respiration, and during the remainder of its life is properly an aquatic form.

   1891 December, Simon Henry Gage, “Life-History of the Vermilion-Spotted Newt (Diemyctylus viridescens Raf.)”, in The American Naturalist, volume 25, number 300, Salem, Mass.: Essex Institute, American Society of Naturalists, page 1084

   Synonyms: virescent