"marcescent" meaning in English

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          "text": "How often is the flower of human life marcescent, tenacious of its old estate when the blooming-time is past."
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          "text": "“But,” she answered, “granting that Mon Cul is a remarkable creature, that he is the elder statesman among monkeys, that his marcescent eyelids have opened upon sights and splendors about which the most romantic among us only dream,[…]”",
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        "(botany, of an organ such as a leaf or blossom; rarely also figurative) Withered, but still attached."
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        "Able to revive when moistened."
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        "(mycology) Able to revive when moistened."
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        },
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