marcescent

Definition

Withered, but still attached.

Etymology

From Latin marcescens, present participle of marcescere.

Example Sentences

• "How often is the flower of human life marcescent, tenacious of its old estate when the blooming-time is past."
• "“But,” she answered, “granting that Mon Cul is a remarkable creature, that he is the elder statesman among monkeys, that his marcescent eyelids have opened upon sights and splendors about which the most romantic among us only dream,[…]”"