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Definition of Rubescent
1. a. Growing or becoming red; tending to redness.
Definition of Rubescent
1. Adjective. turning red; reddening ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rubescent
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Rubescent
1. Reddening. Origin: L. Rubesco, pr. P. Rubescens, to become red (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rubescent
Literary usage of Rubescent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Structural Botany: Or Organography on the Basis of Morphology. To which is by Asa Gray (1879)
"Rubellus, rubescent (-ens). Rubens. Reddish. rubescent also is turning red. Ruber.
Red in general. Rubicundus Blushing, turning rosy- red. ..."
2. Bulletin of Pharmacy (1893)
"... flowers perfectly 4-merous; calyx coriaceous, 2 mm. high and about as broad,
rubescent, hoary-tomen- tose, the lobes broadly triangular-ovate, acute, ..."
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