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æneous

æneous is the alternative form of aeneous.

Meaning of aeneous

Adjective

aeneous (comparative more aeneous, superlative most aeneous)

  1. Bronze-colored.
    • They are unquestionably distinct from the B. velatus, — being not only more æneous and metallic, with their pubescence even coarser still, and of a much more golden hue, but their entire punctation is deeper and (particularly on the head) less dense[…].1865, Thomas Vernon Wollaston, Coleoptera Atlantidum: Being an Enumeration of the Coleopterous Insects of the Madeiras, Salvages, and Canaries, page 16

Forms of æneous

comparativemore æneous
superlativemost æneous

Questions about æneous

What is æneous the alternative form of?
Æneous is the alternative form of aeneous.

Words near æneous in the dictionary

  1. æmulous
  2. Æneas
  3. Æneid
  4. Æneids
  5. Æneolithic
  6. æneous
  7. ænigma
  8. ænigmas
  9. ænigmata
  10. ænigmatic
  11. ænigmatical

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Adapted from Wiktionary: æneous (page history and authors); aeneous (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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