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Canescent vs Candescent - What's the difference?

canescent | candescent |

As adjectives the difference between canescent and candescent

is that canescent is turning white or gray while candescent is glowing with heat; white-hot, incandescent.

canescent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Turning white or gray.
  • *1982 , (TC Boyle), Water Music , Penguin 2006, p. 434:
  • *:An aureole of canescent hair fanned out round his head, and his jaws collapsed on toothless gums […].
  • (botany) Covered with short white or gray hairs; hoary.

    • Related terms

    * canescence ----

    candescent

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • glowing with heat; white-hot, incandescent

    • Related terms

    * candescence ----