Definitions for senescent

senescent se·nes·cent

Spelling: [si-nes-uh nt]
IPA: /sɪˈnɛs ənt/

Senescent is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 116 anagrams from letters in senescent (ceeennsst).

Definitions for senescent

adjective

  1. growing old; aging.
  2. Cell Biology. (of a cell) no longer capable of dividing but still alive and metabolically active.

Origin of senescent

1650-60; Latin senēscent- (stem of senēscēns) present participle of senēscere ‘to grow old’, equivalent to sen- ‘old’ + -ēscent- -escent

Examples for senescent

The process in which we now find James engaged is mental rather than senescent, but you would hardly guess it to look at him.

Has it not sometimes occurred to you that it is only in the senescent epoch of a nations life that love disappears?

On this theme she chanted long and lovingly and a hundred coloured, senescent imageries leaped from the song.

By that sort of piety to which senescent female sinners everywhere and at all times devote themselves she secured new friends.

That senescent October moon which a year ago marked the end of love's halcyon would have been a suitable light for such a party.

The gardener slammed the door of the senescent truck with vehement lack of affection.

A senescent city; mostly antiquated Spanish architecture,—ponderous archways and earthquake-proof walls.

I constantly act as phlebotomist to the vanity of the young and to the anecdotage of the senile and senescent.

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