Canescent

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Biology Covered with short, fine whitish or grayish hairs or down; hoary.
  • adj. Turning white or grayish.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. turning white or gray
  • adj. covered with short white or gray hairs; hoary
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Growing white, or assuming a color approaching to white.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Growing white or hoary; tending or approaching to white; whitish: applied to hoary, whitish pelage, plumage, or other covering of animals, and to plants with gray or hoary pubescence.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. of greyish white
  • adj. covered with fine whitish hairs or down
  • Equivalent
    neutral    achromatic    hairy    haired    hirsute