Usually means: Becoming black or somewhat black.
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  1. nigrescent: Merriam-Webster
  2. nigrescent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. nigrescent: Collins English Dictionary
  4. nigrescent: Wordnik
  5. nigrescent: Wiktionary
  6. nigrescent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. nigrescent: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Nigrescent, nigrescent: Dictionary.com
  9. Nigrescent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. nigrescent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Nigrescent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. nigrescent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. nigrescent: FreeDictionary.org
  14. nigrescent: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. nigrescent: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (nigrescent)

▸ adjective:  Approaching blackness; blackish, dark-coloured.

Similar:
nigricant, nigritudinous, blackened, blackish, negrolike, dusky, fuscous, inky, nighted, sombre, more...

Opposite:
albescent, whitish, pale

Types:
dark, dim, dreary, gloomy, murky, obscure, more...

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Similar:
nigricant, nigritudinous, blackened, blackish, negrolike, dusky, fuscous, inky, nighted, sombre, more...

Opposite:
albescent, whitish, pale

Types:
dark, dim, dreary, gloomy, murky, obscure, more...



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