pallescent

adj

adj

Etymology From (the present participle stem of) Latin pallēscere (“to become pale”).

Biology, Botany, Natural sciences, Zoology Growing or becoming pale.

[T]he spirit of black melancholy, began to set his seal on her pallescent countenance.1818, Thomas Love Peacock, chapter 9, in Nightmare Abbey, Hookham, published 1818:

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