rubescent

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. turning red; reddening
    — Then he could see the modest bookseller, somewhat clammy in his extremities and lost within his academic robe and hood, nervously fidgeting his mortar-board, haled forward by ushers, and tottering rubescent before the chancellor, provost, president (or whoever it might be) who hands out the diploma.

词形变化

more rubescent comparative most rubescent superlative

词源

Attested since at least 1730, from Latin rubescens, present participle of rubescere. By surface analysis, Latin rub(eō) + -escent.
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