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Definition of Glabrescent
1. Adjective. Lacking hair or a similar growth or tending to become hairless.
Definition of Glabrescent
1. Adjective. Becoming glabrous, hairless, or smooth; glabrate. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Glabrescent
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Glabrescent
1. Becoming glabrous (without hairs). (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Glabrescent
Literary usage of Glabrescent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual Flora of Madeira and the Adjacent Island of Porto Santo and the by Richard Thomas Lowe (1868)
"suberect or procumbent, glabrescent downwards. Stip. and Ifts. rather large, tlie
latter 3-G lines long, 3-4 broad, the former rather smaller or shorter and ..."
2. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and ...by Liberty Hyde Bailey by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"branchlets glabrous: Ivs. elliptic to lanceolate, somewhat rugose, pubescent,
later glabrescent above, about 1 in. long: catkins a little before the Ivs.; ..."
3. Flora of Tropical Africa by Daniel Oliver (1877)
"A shrub, glabrescent except the inflorescence, unarmed. ... An unarmed shrub,
quickly glabrescent except parts of the inflorescence, etc., 15-20 feet high. ..."
4. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium by United States National Herbarium, United States National Museum (1905)
"A stout glabrescent weed growing to a height of 1.5 to 2 meters; leaves petiole"),
ovate-oblong, pointed, unequally and coarsely serrate; floral leaves ..."
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