senesce
verb/səˈnɛs/
Etymology From Latin senēscere (“to grow old”).
1
To grow older; to reach maturity.
- All living organisms senesce.
- After spawning, salmon rapidly senesce and die due to systemic endocrine alterations.2012, Douglas E. Crews, Gillian H. Ice, “Aging, Senescence, and Human Variation”, in Sara Stinson, Barry Bogin, Dennis H. O'Rourke, editors, Human Biology: An Evolutionary and Biocultural Perspective, 2nd edition, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
- Related terms
- senescence, senescent