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canities /ca·ni·ti·es/ (kah-nish´e-ēz) grayness or whiteness of the scalp hair.
ca·ni·ti·es (k-nsh-z)
n.
The diminishing of pigment in hair producing a range of colors from normal to white that is perceived as gray.
canities
[kanish′i·ēz]
loss of pigment, as in the graying of hair or the appearance of white streaks in the nails.
canities 
grayness or whiteness of the scalp hair, especially as associated with aging. See also leukotrichia and poliosis.
canities
grayness of the hair.
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He himself drives the boat by the pole, ministers the sails and his rust-colored boat carries the bodies, now aged, yet a god's old age is hardy and green: portitor has horrendus aquas et flumina servat / terribili squalore Charon, cui plurima mento / canities inculta iacet, stant lumina flamma, / sordidus ex umeris nodo dependet amictus.
Images of liminality in Book VI of The Aeneid by Saeedi, Pouneh / CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
At 892 B, Montaigne cites these three verses of Juvenal 3 (lines 26-28): "Dum nova canities, dum prima et recta senectus, I dum superest Lachesi quad torqueat et pedibus me / porto meis, nullo dextram subeunte bacillo.
Intertextual Labyrinths: Ariadne's Lament in Montaigne's "Sur des ... by WIESMANN, MARC-ANDRE / Renaissance Quarterly
In the laboratory, Wood and his colleagues have also tested the polyhedrindeleted virus loaded with a toxin gene from the Diguetia canities spider.
Mothra meets its match; researchers engineer insect-killing viruses by Adler, Tina / Science News
 
 
 
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