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Dictionary: mar·ces·cent   (mär-sĕs'ənt) pronunciation
 
adj.

Withering but not falling off, as a blossom that persists on a twig after flowering.

[Latin marcēscēns, marcēscent-, past participle of marcēscere.]


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