flavescent

19th century. From Latin flavescens.

• IPA^(key): /fləˈvɛs.ənt/
• Rhymes: -ɛsənt

flavescent (comparative more flavescent, superlative most flavescent)

1. yellow-ish in colour, or turning yellow

• albescent (“becoming white”), erubescent (“becoming red”), nigrescent (“becoming black”), virescent (“becoming green”)

• IPA^(key): /fla.vɛ.sɑ̃/, /fla.ve.sɑ̃/

flavescent (feminine flavescente, masculine plural flavescents, feminine plural flavescentes)

1. (poetic) flavescent

• “flavescent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

flāvēscent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of flāvēscō