Definitions for rufescent

rufescent ru·fes·cent

Spelling: [roo-fes-uh nt]
IPA: /ruˈfɛs ənt/

Rufescent is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 412 anagrams from letters in rufescent (ceefnrstu).

Definitions for rufescent

adjective

  1. somewhat reddish; tinged with red; rufous.

Origin of rufescent

1810-20; Latin rūfēscent- (stem of rūfēscēns, present participle of rūfēscere to redden), equivalent to rūf(us) red1, tawny + -ēsc- inchoative suffix + -ent

Examples for rufescent

The gills are annulato-adnexed, distant, rufescent with a yellow tinge.

In the drawing the rufescent and normal plumages of the adults are so well delineated that no description seems necessary.

Above dusky slate colour with rufescent tips to the fur; beneath paler, with a faint rufous tinge about the breast (Jerdon).

The gills are notched, crowded, pallid or rufescent, narrow.

The rufescent ant has lost even the very power of feeding itself.

Similar to No. 758, but back, tail, and flanks without brownish or rufescent tinge.

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