vinescent

English

Etymology

From vinum +‎ -escent.

Adjective

vinescent (comparative more vinescent, superlative most vinescent)

1. (Pertaining to) changing to a wine-red colour.
   • 1966, Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London:

     7 July 1965, in humus in the forest, Gallego, 800 m altitude; to 10 cm high, fuscous cinnamon, clear cinnamon-ochraceous upwards to the cinnamon-orange or orange-ochraceous tips, tissue slowly vinescent on bruising; [...]

   • 1967, Annals of the Carnegie Museum, page 137:

     Vinescent or browning when bruised; fructifications up to 10 cm. high, [...]

   • 1985 November, Ronald H. Petersen, “Notes on Clavarioid Fungi. XX. New Taxa and Distributional Records in Clavulina and Ramaria”, in Mycologia‎^[1], volume 77, number 6 (PDF), Taylor & Francis, Ltd., →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, retrieved 16 July 2018, pages 903–919:

     ...all parts easily weakly vinescent around soil particles.

   • 1990, Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, page 146:

     In one (Watling 14834) the colours were merely reported as such, while in the other (Walling 14806), the lavender colour was linked to handling or bruising of the specimen. From notes accompanying TENN 41224, this is a vinescent response, not a naturally occurring pigmentation.

Derived terms

• vinescence

Related terms

• deliquescent

English terms suffixed with -escent

References

• K. Bensch, editor (2018 July 17 (last accessed)), “vinescent”, in MycoBank Thesaurus‎^[2] (HTML), Utrecht, The Netherlands