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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 of the hair.
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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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