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fla⋅ves⋅cent

  [fluh-ves-uhnt]
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–adjective
turning yellow; yellowish.
Origin:
1850–55; < L flāvēscent-, s. of flāvēscēns, prp. of flāvēscere to become yellow. See flav-, -esce, -ent
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fla·ves·cent   (flə-věs'ənt)   
adj.  Turning yellow; yellowish.

[Latin flāvēscēns, flāvēscent-, present participle of flāvēscere, to turn yellow, inchoative of flāvēre, to be yellow, from flāvus, yellow; see bhel-1 in Indo-European roots.]
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