"nigrescent" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Latin nigrescens, present participle of nigrescere (“to grow black”), from niger (“black”). See negro.",
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      "form": "more nigrescent",
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      "form": "most nigrescent",
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          "ref": "1725, Thesaurus ænigmaticus:",
          "text": "Pomp of Words Moſt ſplendidly nigrescent",
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          "ref": "1958, Jefferson Howard Sutton, “Chapter 9”, in First on the Moon:",
          "text": "At night the temperature is 250 degrees below zero; by day it is the heat of boiling water. Yet the sun is but an intense circle of white aloft in a nigrescent sky.",
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          "ref": "1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter X, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 99:",
          "text": "[T]he dark death roses came into bloom. I cut them and carried them to Thecla, nigrescent purple flecked with scarlet.",
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        "Approaching blackness; blackish, dark-coloured."
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        {
          "english": "becoming white",
          "word": "albescent"
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        {
          "english": "becoming red",
          "word": "erubescent"
        },
        {
          "english": "becoming yellow",
          "word": "flavescent"
        },
        {
          "english": "becoming green",
          "word": "virescent"
        }
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          "word": "black"
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  "word": "nigrescent"
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  "etymology_text": "From Latin nigrescens, present participle of nigrescere (“to grow black”), from niger (“black”). See negro.",
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      "form": "more nigrescent",
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      "english": "becoming white",
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      "english": "becoming red",
      "word": "erubescent"
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      "english": "becoming yellow",
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  "synonyms": [
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  "word": "nigrescent"
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