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calescent

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ca⋅les⋅cent

[kuh-les-uhnt]
–adjective
growing warm; increasing in heat.

Origin:
1795–1805; < L calēscent- (s. of calēscēns becoming warm, prp. of calēscere), equiv. to cal- (s. of calēre to be warm) + -ēscent- -escent


ca⋅les⋅cence, noun
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