cinerous

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin cinereus, suffixed with -ous.

Adjective

cinerous (not comparable)

1. (formal) Ash-coloured.
   • 1810, Encyclopaedia Londinensis, or, Universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature, Volume 4

     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.

   • 1819, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopædia: Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature, Volume 26:

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

   • 2014, Leonard Jenyns, A Manual of British Vertebrate Animals:

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

Anagrams

• Neurosci, coinsure, in course, insource, nourices, rouncies