| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | tu·mes·cent |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  t -m s  nt, ty- |
| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Somewhat tumid. 2. Becoming swollen; swelling. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Latin tum scns, tumscent-, present participle of tumscere, to begin to swell, inchoative of tumre, to swell. See teu- in Appendix I.
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