sylvesco

silvesco ( sylv- ), ĕre, v. inch. n. [id.], of the grape-vine, to grow or run wild, to run to wood:

(vitis) ne silvescat sarmentis,

Cic. Sen. 15, 52:

nec pati vitem silvescere,

Col. 4, 11, 2.—

II.

Transf.:

capilli silvescentium crinium velleribus involuti,

Arn. 3, p. 109.