a. rare. [f. L. lign-um wood + -ESCENT.] Tending to be ligneous or woody.
a. 1706. Evelyn, Sylva, I. ii. (1776), 66. Suffrutices are shrubs lower than the former, lignescent, and more approaching to the stalky herbs Lavender, Rue, &c.
1731. Bailey, vol. II., Lignescent, growing wooden, becoming wood. [In some mod. Dicts.]
