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cinerous

cinerous

English

Adjective

cinerous (not comparable)

  1. (formal) Ash-coloured.
    • 1810, Encyclopaedia Londinensis, or, Universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature, Volume 4
      Coluber cinereus, the cinereous viper; a native cf South America and India; of a cinereous grey colour; the abdomen white, angulated ; the scales of the tail ferruginous at the edges.
    • 1819, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopædia: Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature, Volume 26
      Wings tailed, white, with a brown border; beneath varied with ferruginous and yellow, the lower ones with two cinereous streaks.
    • 2014, Leonard Jenyns, A Manual of British Vertebrate Animals
      [] breast and front of the neck cinereous brown; belly, vent, and under tail-coverts, pure white []