nigrescent

nigrescent
/nuy gres"euhnt/, adj.
tending toward black; blackish.
[1745-55; < L nigrescent- (s. of nigrescens, prp. of nigrescere to turn black, grow dark), equiv. to nigr- (s. of niger) black + -escent- (see -ESCE, -ENT)]

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