Re: senesce


Subject: Re: senesce
Wompprat@aol.com
Date: Fri Nov 03 2000 - 15:23:06 GMT


Webster's as the old standby!
senesce was not listed, but "senescence" was. Anyone can infer the meaning of
the verb...
senescence, [n] 1695...1: the state of being old: the process of becoming old
2: the growth phase in the plant or plant part (as a leaf) from fully
maturity to death

That's interesting, though...the plant part is very appropriate.
In my experience, writers do not only feel always forever young...a lot of
the time I feel really young when people laugh at me for climbing trees at
15, going about their ever-so-sophiticated routines, but other times I feel
about 85.
It's also interesting how the process of death is described as a phase of
growth...

smile
Kathrine
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