Usually means: Turning white; becoming white gradually.
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  1. albescent: Merriam-Webster
  2. albescent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. albescent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. albescent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. albescent: Vocabulary.com
  6. albescent: Wordnik
  7. albescent: Wiktionary
  8. albescent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. albescent: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Albescent, albescent: Dictionary.com
  11. Albescent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. albescent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. albescent: Rhymezone
  14. Albescent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. albescent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. albescent: FreeDictionary.org
  17. albescent: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. albescent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. albescent: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. albescent: Merriam-Webster

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Definitions from Wiktionary (albescent)

▸ adjective:  Becoming white or whitish; moderately white.

Similar:
whitish, albicant, off-white, light, whity, olivescent, beigeish, blanched almond, hoary, beige, more...

Opposite:
melanoid, dark, swarthy, ebon

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Similar:
whitish, albicant, off-white, light, whity, olivescent, beigeish, blanched almond, hoary, beige, more...

Opposite:
melanoid, dark, swarthy, ebon



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