marcescent
Meaning of marcescent
adjective
(of a leaf or frond) withering but remaining attached to the stem.
early 18th century: from Latin marcescent- ‘beginning to wither’, from marcere ‘wither’.
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Hyphenation of marcescent
marces-cent
- It consists of 2 syllables and 10 chars.
- marcescent is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Anagrams of marcescent
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