viriˈdescent, a.
[ad. ppl. stem of late L. viridescĕre to become green, f. viridis virid a.: see -escent.]
Somewhat green or virid. Also fig.
| 1847 Darlington Amer. Weeds, etc. (1860) 433 Viridescent, greenish. 1889 Stevenson Lett. (1899) II. 158 The front of the mountain ivied and furred with clinging forest, one viridescent cliff. 1907 Sat. Rev. 5 Oct. 420/2 Philosophers, like gods, may have a crude and viridescent old age. 1938 S. Beckett Murphy viii. 152 The..kites rode steadily..flown by the child. She could just discern them... For a moment they stood out motionless and black, in a glade of limpid viridescent sky. 1980 P. Hill Savages iv. 57 The mainly deciduous trees joined branches overhead so that Leo was walking in a viridescent gloom. |