incanescent

English

Etymology

Latin incanescens, present participle incanescere (“to become gray”).

Adjective

incanescent (comparative more incanescent, superlative most incanescent)

  1. (dated) Becoming hoary or grey; canescent.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for incanescent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Latin

Verb

incānēscent

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of incānēscō
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