Vinescent

Quick meaning: Vinescent is an adjective meaning (Pertaining to) changing to a wine-red colour.

Meaning

(Pertaining to) changing to a wine-red colour.

Example Sentences

...all parts easily weakly vinescent around soil particles.

Vinescent or browning when bruised; fructifications up to 10 cm. high, [...]

7 July 1965, in humus in the forest, Gallego, 800 m altitude; to 10 cm high, fuscous cinnamon, clear cinnamon-ochraceous upwards to the cinnamon-orange or orange-ochraceous tips, tissue slowly vinescent on bruising; [...]

In one (Watling 14834) the colours were merely reported as such, while in the other (Walling 14806), the lavender colour was linked to handling or bruising of the specimen. From notes accompanying TENN 41224, this is a vinescent response, not a naturally occurring pigmentation.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include vinous, vinaceous, wine-colored, wine-coloured, violescent, rufescent.

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