different between canescence vs canescent

English

canescence (uncountable)

From Latin canescens, present participle of canescere (“to become gray or white”)

canescent (comparative more canescent, superlative most canescent)

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.

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