viridescentとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˌvɪɹəˈdɛs(ə)nt/
• 韻: -ɛsənt

形容詞

viridescent (comparative more viridescent, superlative most viridescent)

1. Having a greenish hue; becoming somewhat green in color.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:greenish, Thesaurus:verdant

   • 1891 December, Simon Henry Gage, “Life-History of the Vermilion-Spotted Newt (Diemyctylus viridescens Raf.)”, in The American Naturalist, volume 25, number 300, Salem, Mass.: Essex Institute, American Society of Naturalists, page 1084:

     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.

派生語

• viridescence