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subcineritious

subcineritious adjective: of a somewhat ashen gray color.

Adjective

subcineritious (not comparable)

  1. Of a somewhat ashen gray color.
    • [page 353:] Subcineritiously virid.
      [page 446:] Some of the domestick Ducks are all white, others all black, others like Piets, partly white, partly black; and others subcineritious, as all wilde ones are.
      [page 672:] Balm flows from a … Tree … of a subcineritious colour.1657, Tomlinson (translator), Jean de Renou, A Medicinal Dispensatory
    • A subcineritious or dirty-coloured putrilage.1670, H. Stubbe, Plus Ultra, page 130

Origin of subcineritious

From sub- + cineritious.

Questions about subcineritious

What does subcineritious mean?
Subcineritious means of a somewhat ashen gray color.
What part of speech is subcineritious?
Subcineritious is an adjective.

Words near subcineritious in the dictionary

  1. subchrons
  2. subchunk
  3. subchunks
  4. subcinctoria
  5. subcinctorium
  6. subcineritious
  7. subcipher
  8. subciphers
  9. subcircinate
  10. subcircle
  11. subcircles

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