How to pronounce flavescent
American English pronunciation
fluh-VES-unt
- IPA
- /fləˈvɛsənt/
- Syllables
- fluh · VES · unt (3 syllables, stress on the 2nd)
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What flavescent means
Turning yellow, or a little yellow
In a sentence: By October the flavescent leaves of the birch tree glowed in the sun.
Where it comes from: It comes from a Latin word meaning to turn yellow, from flavus, yellow. It was first used in the 1800s.
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