The Collaborative International Dictionary
Albescent
Albescent \Al*bes"cent\, a. [L. albescens, p. pr. of albescere to grow white, fr. albus white.] Becoming white or whitish; moderately white.
Wiktionary
albescent
a. Becoming white or whitish; moderately white.
WordNet
albescent
adj. becoming or shading into white
Usage examples of "albescent".
In mounds and valleys and ridges and cones, it lay as albescent as bone dust.
There the true gods led him to the subterranean pool where eyeless, albescent fish swam around the clutch of huge eggs, as hard as the finest armor, left there countless centuries past.
The passage let into a circular sanctorum, its albescent walls worked in intricate arabesques, its high vaulted ceiling held aloft by fluted alabaster columns.