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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective canescent has 2 senses
- canescent(s = adj.all) Array - of greyish white; "the canescent moon"
- canescent(s = adj.all) hoary - covered with fine whitish hairs or down; Array
CIDE DICTIONARY
canescent, a. [L. canescens, p. pr. of canescere, v. inchoative of canere to be white.].
Growing white, or assuming a color approaching to white. [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
canescent
Whiteness
N whiteness, argent, albification, etiolation, lactescence, snow, paper, chalk, milk, lily, ivory, alabaster, albata, eburin, German silver, white metal, barium sulphate, titanium oxide, blanc fixe, ceruse, pearl white, white lead, carbonate of lead, white, milk-white, snow-white, snowy, niveous, candid, chalky, hoar, hoary, silvery, argent, argentine, canescent, cretaceous, lactescent, whitish, creamy, pearly, fair, blond, blanched, high in tone, light, white as a sheet, white as driven snow, white as a lily, white as silver, like ivory.
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