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Rubescent vs Rufescent - What's the difference?

rubescent | rufescent |

As adjectives the difference between rubescent and rufescent

is that rubescent is turning red; reddening while rufescent is reddish; tinged with red.

rubescent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • turning red; reddening

    • Related terms

    * rubescence ----

    rufescent

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Reddish; tinged with red.
  • * 1937 , The Emu: Official Organ of the Australasian Ornithologists' Union
    • The more inland, lighter race is distinguished from A. u. uropygialis in being much paler on the back, by the edgings of the forehead scallopings and auriculars being paler, and by having the brown of the forehead less deep and less rufescent .
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