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Canescent [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Growing white or hoary.

Canescent [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Growing white, or assuming a color approaching to white.

Whiteness Roget’s Thesaurus §430

N. whiteness, argent, albification, etiolation, lactescence, snow, paper, chalk, milk, lily, ivory, alabaster, albata, eburin, german silver, white metal, barium sulphate, titanium oxide, blanc fixe, ceruse, pearl white, white lead, carbonate of lead

V. be white, render white, whiten, bleach, blanch, etiolate, whitewash, silver

Adj. white, milk-white, snow-white, snowy, niveous, candid, chalky, hoar, hoary, silvery, argent, argentine, canescent, cretaceous, lactescent, whitish, creamy, pearly, fair, blond, blanched, high in tone, light, white as a sheet, white as driven snow, white as a lily, white as silver, like ivory