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Subject: viridescent: Dictionary.com Word of the Day
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Dec. 23, 2014
Word of the Day

viridescent Audio Pronunciation
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\vir-i-DES-uhnt\
adjective
1. slightly green; greenish.
Quotes
The wrack broke behind them as she watched, for a moment they stood out motionless and black, in a glade of limpid viridescent sky.
-- Samuel Beckett, Murphy, 1938
Origin
Viridescent entered English in the mid-1800s from the Late Latin viridēscere meaning "to become green."
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