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Adjektiivi

  1. (botany, of an organ such as a leaf or blossom; rarely also figurative) Withered, but still attached.
  2. (mycology) Able to revive when moistened.

Esimerkit

  • How often is the flower of human life marcescent, tenacious of its old estate when the blooming-time is past.
  • “But,” she answered, “granting that Mon Cul is a remarkable creature, that he is the elder statesman among monkeys, that his marcescent eyelids have opened upon sights and splendors about which the most romantic among us only dream,[...]”

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