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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
marcescent /mɑːˈsɛs(ə)nt/

▶adjective Botany (of leaves or fronds) withering but remaining attached to the stem.

– derivatives
marcescence noun.

– origin C18: from L. marcescent- ‘beginning to wither’, from marcere ‘wither’.

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