#albescent

• Albescent — Tending to become white, acquiring a whitish or light-colored tint; in the process of turning white. The term is used in isolation in scientific language (biology, botany) or in refined literary descriptions to express the gradual shift of a surface, a plant structure, or the sky toward the color white.
• Albescence — The state of being albescent; the process, property, or quality of a surface, body, or biological texture tending toward the color white or acquiring a whitish tint. The abstract term is occasionally employed in materials physics treatises, botany, or neologistic artistic criticism.