Flavescent (adjective)
flavescent [fluh-ves-uh nt]
adjective
1. turning yellow; yellowish.
Origin: 1850-55; < Latin flāvēscent-, stem of flāvēscēns, present participle of flāvēscere to become yellow. See flav-, -esce, -ent
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