viridescent

形容词 adj.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Green or greenish.
  2. Becoming green.
    — In from two to three years the newt changes its red for a viridescent coloration, returns to the water, loses its ciliated and regains a stratified non-ciliated oral epithelium, and reassumes a partial aquatic respiration, and during the remainder of its life is properly an aquatic form.

词形变化

more viridescent comparative most viridescent superlative

词源

C 1850 from Late Latin viridescens, present participle of viridescere; see virescent.
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