Definition of "rubescent" []

• Turning red; reddening. (adjective)

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• "It writhed down her arm, and its five rubescent flower heads thrust out toward the priestess — vibrating, quivering, held in leash only by the light touch of the handmaiden at its very end."
• "The line of tail lights snaked over the hills and into the woods, the whole thing inching along like a rubescent worm."
• "From those gaping jaws a gout of rubescent flame swept across the captives."