Meaning of cinereous | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Of an ash-gray colour.
2. Like ashes.
3. Containing ashes.

Equivalents

Examples

“With a bill two inches and a half long , very ſlender , and a little recurvated : head , and upper part of neck , cinereous , with dusky lines : over each eye a white line”

“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.”

“Wings tailed, white, with a brown border⟳; beneath varied with ferruginous and yellow, the lower ones with two cinereous streaks.”

“[…] breast and front of the neck cinereous brown; belly, vent, and under tail-coverts, pure white […]”

“We likewise see⟳ by the valuable Work⟳ of Andrew Burdon, professor of the Royal French Academy of Painting, that the Antients occasionally used the Amphora form⟳ in other parts of the world as both cinereous and lachrymal urns; […]”

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