The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rubescent
Rubescent \Ru*bes"cent\, a. [L. rubescens, -entis, p. pr. of rubescere to grow red, v. incho from rubere to be red: cf. F. rubescent. See Ruby.] Growing or becoming red; tending to redness.
Wiktionary
rubescent
a. turning red; reddening
Usage examples of "rubescent".
The torrent plunged into the fractures, the water drops sparkling with rubescent shimmer in the fulgent splendor of blazing fuel tanks.
It writhed down her arm, and its five rubescent flower heads thrust out towardthe priestess vibrating, quivering, held in leash only by the lighttouch of the handmaiden at its very end.
She appraises my rubescent schnozz guiltily, so I assure her that somebody else punched me harder than she did.