cinereous
/sɪˈnɪəɹi.əs/
cinereous adjective: of an ash-gray colour.
Adjective
cinereous (comparative more cinereous, superlative most cinereous)
- Of an ash-gray colour.
- 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 line1784, Thomas Pennant, Arctic Zoology
- 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.1810, Encyclopaedia Londinensis, or, Universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature, Volume 4
- Synonyms:
- ashen
- Like ashes.
- Containing ashes.
- 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; […]1802, Maria Guthrie, Matthew Guthrie, A tour performed in the years 1795-6 through the Taurida, or Crimea, the ancient kingdom of Bosphorus, the once-powerful republic of Tauric Cherson, and all the...
cinereous meaning in Tamil and Indonesian
cinereous in Tamil
- சாம்பல் நிறமுடைய
cinereous in Indonesian
- colour
- pirau
Examples of cinereous in a sentence
- Wings tailed, white, with a brown border; beneath varied with ferruginous and yellow, the lower ones with two cinereous streaks.1819, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopædia: Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature, Volume 26:
- […] breast and front of the neck cinereous brown; belly, vent, and under tail-coverts, pure white […]2014, Leonard Jenyns, A Manual of British Vertebrate Animals:
Synonyms of cinereous
Forms of cinereous
| comparative | more cinereous |
|---|---|
| superlative | most cinereous |
Origin of cinereous
Latin cinereus, from cinis, cineris (“ashes”).
Words formed from cinereous
Phrases with cinereous
Questions about cinereous
- What does cinereous mean?
- Cinereous means of an ash-gray colour.
- What is cinereous in Tamil?
- Cinereous in Tamil is சாம்பல் நிறமுடைய. See Cinereous meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use cinereous in a sentence?
- Wings tailed, white, with a brown border; beneath varied with ferruginous and yellow, the lower ones with two cinereous streaks.
- What part of speech is cinereous?
- Cinereous is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce cinereous?
- Cinereous is pronounced /sɪˈnɪəɹi.əs/.
Words near cinereous in the dictionary
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