a. rare. [ad. ppl. stem of late L. viridescĕre to become green, f. viridis VIRID a.: see -ESCENT.] Somewhat green or virid. Also fig.

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1810.  J. Kennedy, Glenochel, II. 59.

        Then bob the birds, in budding bowers,
  And wildwoods with their warbles ring,
The halcyon time to hail the flowers
  Fair, fresh, and viridescent spring.

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1847.  Darlington, Amer. Weeds, etc. (1860), 433. Viridescent, greenish.

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1889.  Stevenson, Lett. (1899), II. 158. The front of the mountain ivied and furred with clinging forest, one viridescent cliff.

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1907.  Sat. Rev., 5 Oct., 420/2. Philosophers, like gods, may have a crude and viridescent old age.

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