Usually means: Reddish or tinged with red.
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  1. rufescent: Merriam-Webster
  2. rufescent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. rufescent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. rufescent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. rufescent: Wordnik
  6. rufescent: Wiktionary
  7. rufescent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. rufescent: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Rufescent, rufescent: Dictionary.com
  10. Rufescent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. rufescent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Rufescent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. rufescent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. rufescent: FreeDictionary.org
  15. rufescent: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  16. rufescent: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (rufescent)

▸ adjective:  Becoming reddish; tinged with red.

Similar:
rubescent, erubescent, florid, rosed, vulpinous, rubicund, vinescent, ruddy, reddened, fulvescent, more...

Opposite:
albescent

Adjectives:
more, less, pale, general, abdomen

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Similar:
rubescent, erubescent, florid, rosed, vulpinous, rubicund, vinescent, ruddy, reddened, fulvescent, more...

Opposite:
albescent

Adjectives:
more, less, pale, general, abdomen



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