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nigrous

nigrous adjective: black.

Adjective

nigrous (not comparable)

  1. Black.
    • Of pillared mists, in nigrous smoking gloom, […]1816, George Thomas, Freedom; with other poems
    • Sternum: nigrous, clad less densely with longer, usually fusiform, similarly colored squamae; […]1940, Stanford University, Natural History Museum, Microentomology: Contributions to Entomology from the Natural History Museum of Stanford University, Volumes 5-8

Origin of nigrous

From Latin nigrum, + -ous.

Questions about nigrous

What does nigrous mean?
Nigrous means black.
What part of speech is nigrous?
Nigrous is an adjective.

Words near nigrous in the dictionary

  1. nigrostriata
  2. nigrostriatal
  3. nigrostriatally
  4. nigrostriatum
  5. nigrothalamic
  6. nigrous
  7. nigroviriditoxin
  8. nigrumnin
  9. nigs
  10. nigtard
  11. nigtards

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