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canescence en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The quality of being canescent.
    • Leaves pinnate, or pinnatifid, thickly clothed with a short silkycanescence: leaflets or segments lanceolate or ovate and acute, the lower ones 2 or 3-parted, or 2 to 3-lobed: the upper ones entire, all clothed with a silky canescence. 1826, Robert Sweet, Geraniaceae: The Natural Order of Gerania:
    • A small white- or pale-cream-capped mushroom with a canescence on the cap and upper stem when fresh; on leaves and humus under hardwoods, but also on conifer needles 2017, Timothy J. Baroni, Mushrooms of the Northeastern United States and Eastern Canada: