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mar·ces·cent  audio  (mär-ssnt) KEY 

ADJECTIVE:
Withering but not falling off, as a blossom that persists on a twig after flowering.
ETYMOLOGY:
Latin marcscns, marcscent- past participle of marcscere inchoative of marcre, to wither


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