Meaning of marcescent | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Withered, but still attached.
   also, figuratively, not-comparable, rare
2. Able to revive when moistened.
   not-comparable

Equivalents

Examples

“How often is the flower of human life marcescent, tenacious of its old estate when the blooming-time is past.”

““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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