Pronounced: in-HERE, verb
Notes: You might be able to guess this one, even if you don’t know it
Yesterday’s word
The word viridescent means “slightly green; greenish”
First usage
Our word came into English in the mid-1800s
Background / Comments
If you take off the ‘v’, you get iridescent, which means something that shows varied, lustrous colors rather like a rainbow. So, that was all I could see. However, I should have been able to guess that this was related to the color green. Our word comes from the Late Latin word viridēscent, from viridēscēns, the present participle of viridēscere (to become green), which has a root of viridis (green).
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