Crossword-Solution: VIRESCENT 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

The summer had already made impression upon that mass of uniform colour by tipping every twig with a tiny sprout of virescent yellow; while the minute sounds which issued from the forest revealed that the apparently still place was becoming a perfect reservoir of insect life.

Between them stood a table covered with green baize, which, reflecting upwards a band of sunlight shining across the chamber, flung upon his already white features the virescent hues of death.

The two functions of art in Italy, in this entirely liberal and virescent phase of it,--virgin art, we may call it, retaining the most literal sense of the words virga and virgo,--are to manifest the doctrines of a religion which now, for the first time, men had soul enough to understand; and to adorn edifices or dress, with which the completed politeness of daily life might be invested, its convenience completed, and its decorous and honourable pride satisfied.

Schlechtendal, in describing a flower of _Colchicum autumnale_, in which the perianth was virescent, says that, although the stamens were present, the pistil was absent.

The several floral parts are here, some virescent, others truly foliaceous, and each whorl is separated from its neighbour by a rather long internode.