- becoming or tending to become black
- blackish
Origin of nigrescent
Classical Latin nigrescens, present participle of nigrescere, to grow black from niger, blacknigrescent
ni·gres·centWebster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition Copyright © 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Adjective
(comparative more nigrescent, superlative most nigrescent)
- Growing or becoming black; approaching blackness.
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