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Meaning of viridescence in English:

viridescence

Pronunciation /ˌvɪrɪˈdɛsns/

noun

literary

See viridescent

‘They were cities of leaves./I would lie under them/and my eyes would rise/buoyed up and surfeited/in immense rustling viridescence.’
  • ‘The swill of rain water and leaves of lapsed viridescence swashed onto the lip of the pavement.’