russet
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Is russet a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (archaic) Gray or ash-colored.Examples: "[W]hen they him ſpie, / As Wilde-geeſe, that the creeping Fowler eye, / Or ruſſed^([sic – meaning russet])-pated choughes, many in ſort / (Riſing and cawing at the guns report) / Seuer themſelues, and madly ſweepe the skye: / So at his ſight, away his fellowes flye, […]"archaic
2. (botany) Having a rough skin that is reddish-brown or greyish; russeted.Examples: "Many apple varieties are mottled or russet, with a rough, dull skin hiding crisp, flavorful flesh."
verb (English)
1. (ambitransitive, of apples, pears, etc.) To develop reddish-brown spots; to cause russeting.Examples: "Pear psylla causes damage when nymphs, feeding at high densities on leaves, produce enough honeydew to drip onto the fruit. A black, sooty mold fungus then grows into the honeydew, distorting and russeting the fruit surface, which substantially lowers its commercial value, […]"; "Cultivars differ greatly in their propensity to russet: the characteristic is heritable but more than one factor seems to be involved[…]."; "I surprised my own amazement in the looking glass / where the resinous radiance of a chandelier / russeted the chaise longue and the chiffonier. / Autumn lay over everything I loved."ambitransitiveusually
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