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Webster 1913 Edition

(rụ-fĕs′sent)

Adj.

[L.

rufescens

, p. pr. of

rufescere

to become reddish, fr.

rufus

red: cf. F.

rufescent

Reddish; tinged with red.

Adj.

[L. rufesco, to grow red.] Reddish; tinged with red.

rufescent ‎(comparative more rufescent, superlative most rufescent)

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.

rūfēscent