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 the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] |
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