immarcescible

Middle French inmarcessible (1482), later immarcescible (“that does not shrivel" or "that does not perish”), from Latin immarcescibilis (“unfading”).

immarcescible (comparative more immarcescible, superlative most immarcescible)

1. (rare) Permanent, enduring; that does not perish.
   • 1989, Kathleen Raine, Selected Poems, "Hieros Gamos", p.103:

     I did not think to see them once again, / For what could bring into an old woman's dream / Canova's immarcescible marble lovers?

• marcescible

• immarcescibility
• immarcescibly

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin immarcescibilis.

• IPA^(key): /i.maʁ.sɛ.sibl/

immarcescible (plural immarcescibles)

1. immarcescible

   Synonym: inflétrissable

• “immarcescible” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).