adjective

• Growing or shading into white.

  ‘the albescent waves on the horizon’

  More example sentences

  • ‘‘Lutescent ‘leaves will change from green to yellow, and ‘albescent‘leaves will turn from yellow to white.’’
  • ‘When this white albescent strip is missing on either a brown or blue then it is a Smoky.’
  • ‘Saturday's rain sluiced away the week's snowfall, which the balance of an albescent Sunday replaced.’
  • ‘Ricky's grin of recognition revealed a healthy complement of gleaming white dentition, all the more albescent in contrast to his swarthy visage.’
  • ‘Interestingly, another member of the H. ventricosa family, H. ventricosa ` Aureomarginata ’, has an edge that is albescent.’