calescent
[ kuh-les-uh nt ]
/ kəˈlɛs ənt /
adjective
growing warm; increasing in heat.
Origin of calescent
1795–1805; < Latin
calēscent- (stem of
calēscēns becoming warm, present participle of
calēscere), equivalent to
cal- (stem of
calēre to be warm) +
-ēscent-
-escent
OTHER WORDS FROM calescent
ca·les·cence, nounWords nearby calescent
Example sentences from the Web for calescent
This calescent mode of proceeding was adopted with the idea of exciting a counter-irritation in the diseased part.