viridescent
adj/ˌvɪɹəˈdɛs(ə)nt/
Etymology C 1850 from Late Latin viridescens, present participle of viridescere; see virescent.
1
Green or greenish.
2
Becoming green.
- In from two to three years the newt changes its red for a viridescent coloration, returns to the water, loses its ciliated and regains a stratified non-ciliated oral epithelium, and reassumes a partial aquatic respiration, and during the remainder of its life is properly an aquatic form.1891 December, Simon Henry Gage, “Life-History of the Vermilion-Spotted Newt (Diemyctylus viridescens Raf.)”, in The American Naturalist, volume 25, number 300, Salem, Mass.: Essex Institute, American Society of Naturalists, page 1084:
- Derived terms
- viridescently
- Related terms
- virescence, viridans, viridans streptococci, viridescence, viridity