"canescence" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1826, Robert Sweet, Geraniaceae: The Natural Order of Gerania",
          "text": "Leaves pinnate, or pinnatifid, thickly clothed with a short silkycanescence: leaflets or segments lanceolate or ovate and acute, the lower ones 2 or 3-parted, or 2 to 3-lobed: the upper ones entire, all clothed with a silky canescence.",
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          "ref": "2017, Timothy J. Baroni, Mushrooms of the Northeastern United States and Eastern Canada",
          "text": "A small white- or pale-cream-capped mushroom with a canescence on the cap and upper stem when fresh; on leaves and humus under hardwoods, but also on conifer needles",
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        "The quality of being canescent."
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          "ref": "1826, Robert Sweet, Geraniaceae: The Natural Order of Gerania",
          "text": "Leaves pinnate, or pinnatifid, thickly clothed with a short silkycanescence: leaflets or segments lanceolate or ovate and acute, the lower ones 2 or 3-parted, or 2 to 3-lobed: the upper ones entire, all clothed with a silky canescence.",
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        "The quality of being canescent."
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