| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | ru·bes·cent |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  r -b s  nt |
| ADJECTIVE: | Turning red; reddening. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Latin rub scns, rubscent-, present participle of rubscere, to grow red, inchoative of rubre, to be red. See reudh- in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | ru·bescence —NOUN
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