canescent

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: ca=nes=cent

CIDE DICTIONARY

canescent, a. [L. canescens, p. pr. of canescere, v. inchoative of canere to be white.].

 Growing white, or assuming a color approaching to white.  [1913 Webster]

ROGET THESAURUS

canescent

Whiteness

N whiteness, argent, albification, etiolation, lactescence, snow, paper, chalk, milk, lily, ivory, alabaster, albata, eburin, German silver, white metal, barium sulphate, titanium oxide, blanc fixe, ceruse, pearl white, white lead, carbonate of lead, white, milk-white, snow-white, snowy, niveous, candid, chalky, hoar, hoary, silvery, argent, argentine, canescent, cretaceous, lactescent, whitish, creamy, pearly, fair, blond, blanched, high in tone, light, white as a sheet, white as driven snow, white as a lily, white as silver, like ivory.