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Possible definitions for tabescent
albescent
albescent
adj : becoming or shading into white
canescent
canescent
adj 1: grayish white; "the canescent moon"
2: covered with fine whitish hairs or down [syn: {hoary}]
pubescent
pubescent
adj 1: (of animals especially human beings) having arrived at the
onset of puberty (the age at which sex glands become
functional) but not yet fully mature; "the budding
breasts of a pubescent girl and the downy chin of
pubescent boy"
2: covered with fine soft hairs or down; "downy milkweed seeds"
[syn: {downy}, {puberulent}, {sericeous}]
tumescent
tumescent
adj : abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas; "hungry
children with bloated stomachs"; "he had a grossly
distended stomach"; "eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids";
"swollen hands"; "tumescent tissue"; "puffy tumid
flesh" [syn: {bloated}, {distended}, {puffed}, {puffy},
{swollen}, {tumid}, {turgid}]
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